#JeNeSuisPaCharlie

Following a shooting attack by two self-proclaimed Islamistgunmen at the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on 7th January 2015, there emerged the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie on Twitter as an expression of condolences for the victims, solidarity, and support for the magazine’s right to free speech. Almost simultaneously, however, there was also #JeNeSuisPasCharlie explicitly countering the former, affirmative hashtag. The dataset contains a complete set of the 74,047 ids of tweets containing #JeNeSuisPasCharlie posted between 7th and 11th January and retrieved by purchasing the dataset from Gnip trough Sifter.