Dataset for Analyzing Social Network Posts and Responses Written in Hebrew from the Political Field

To collect the dataset from Israel’s most popular social network, we employed the services of an information retrieval company. The data was collected from January 2020 to December 2021; every two weeks we obtained the most popular post (based on the number of comments) for each politician. We focused on the most influential party leaders on the right, left, and center of Israel’s political spectrum. We have published the dataset for the benefit of the academic research community.

We describe the columns based on their names:

Index – A unique identifier assigned to each row in the dataset by a sequential number.

Sub Index – A secondary index assigned to ’Index’ representing a sub comment (a comment made to another comment).

Name – The name of the person who wrote the comment, also known as the commenter.

Profile ID – A unique identifier assigned to the commenter’s Facebook profile.

Date – The date that has been recorded when the comment was published on Facebook.

Likes – The number of likes received for a comment.

Comment – The content of the comment.

URL – The web address or link associated with the comment.

Post ID – A unique identifier assigned to a specific post.

Politician Name – The name of the politician who wrote the post.

Comment ID – A unique identifier assigned to a specific comment.

Is Media – A binary feature that indicates where some media (e.g., picture or video) has been part of the user’s comment.