Social Media Tweets Pro and Anti Bolsonaro

Overview

Social media platforms have an important role in Brazilian society's polarization. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2021),  these platforms have a peak of posts about President Bolsonaro's speech and behavior during this period. On the one hand, millions of people support Bolsonaro's attitudes and follow his controversial guidances. On the other hand, a vast number of social media users accuse Bolsonaro of acting against democracy and science.  

In this context, this dataset presents the collection of tweets posts and its linked news articles (including all related media) covering two Brazilians’ demonstrations events PRO and AGAINST President Bolsonaro government, during September 7th and October 2nd of 2021.
The dataset contains 4.7M tweets.

Data Collection
We use the library Fake-News Crawler (https://github.com/phillipecardenuto/fakenews-crawler) to collect the tweet posts and related media. For this, we provided keywords related to both events to receive the data during events and following days. For instance, some of the keywords used were ‘7deSet’, ‘BolsonaroAte2026’, ‘VemParaRua’, ‘EleNao’, ‘07EuVou’, ‘SupremoÉOPovo’, 'aculpaédobolsonaro’, ‘2outeuvou’.

Disclaimer:  We did not perform any filtering or procedure to assert that all collected data is, in fact, related to the demonstrations; therefore, some of the content of the dataset might not be related to these events.

Content
brazilian_demonstration_events.json: It contains the tweet posts, their metadata (e.g., post time, language), and all related media content URLs (i.e., news article link and media links).

Media Content
Due to the terms of use from the social networks, we do not make publicly available the images and videos that were collected. However, we can provide some extra pieces of media content related to one (or more) events by contacting the authors.

Funding
DéjàVu thematic project, São Paulo Research Foundation (grants 2017/12646-3, 2020/02241-9 and 2020/02211-2)