twitter_elections_public_interest

This dataset contains Twitter public interest intervention labels for tweets by a selected group of politicians starting on November 1, 2020. The list of politicians included in this dataset can be found in politicians.csv. The politicians CSV contains Members of Congress, candidates for federal office in 2020, prominent political organizations, and prominent members of the executive branch such as the President, Vice President, and various cabinet members.

The misinformation labels dataset is contained in CSVs within the data/ directory of this repository. Tweets are sorted into files based on the date they were published.

Note that this dataset may not be completely inclusive of all tweets by the politicians during the time period, but effort was made to collect as many tweets as possible from the user set in question.