Disinformation on YouTube: A dataset of YouTube comments on videos related to claims made by Trump and Vance on Haitian immigrants

The corpus contains three files. First, the youtube_haitian_disinformation_videos_meta.csv file includes comments and YouTube video metadata. Data is organized around per video information. The columnar values are: 

video_id 

date (video publication date) 

title 

description 

channel_title 

transcript 

transcript_str (Video transcript without timestamps) 

views 

likes 

comments (all comments per video) 

Second, the youtube_haitian_disinformation_comment_reply_metadata.csv file includes comments, replies, and comment metadata. Each comment occupies its own row in the spreadsheet. The columnar field are: 

video_id 

comment 

comment_date 

comment_like_count 

author 

comment_id 

in_reply_to 

neg, neu, pos, compound (VADER polarity scores) 

named_entities (spaCy named entity tags with tokens) 

emoji (spaCy Emojis and token spans) 

Comments and associated metadata are represented in individual rows. 

The third file contains the results of the TFIDF analysis described herein. The TFIDF analysis features the top 5000 terms weights for the comments to each video in a .csv file. 

youtube_disinfo_comments_tfidf_results_per_video.csv