Conspiracist and mainstream Telegram channels in English and Italian

This is the data used for the paper "Multilingual analysis of narrative properties in conspiracist vs mainstream Telegram channels". It contains the data of 300 Telegram channels, 200 in English and 100 in Italian, half of which (50 Italian and 100 English) are conspiracist and half of which contain various types of mainstream content including news, economy, and science facts. The channels are labeled by a human annotator on the channel level (individual posts do not have labels). The data shared here is a .zip containing 300 .json files, with the channel names replaced by randomly generated IDs. Each filename starts with a language identifier (en/it), followed by an underscore, a channel type identifier (consp/main) and a channel ID. For a full description of the dataset, we refer to our paper. If you use our dataset, please cite our paper: Laken, K., Melis, M., Tonelli, S., & García, M. (2025, August). Multilingual Analysis of Narrative Properties in Conspiracist vs Mainstream Telegram Channels. In Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) (pp. 426-457). @inproceedings{laken2025multilingual, title={Multilingual Analysis of Narrative Properties in Conspiracist vs Mainstream Telegram Channels}, author={Laken, Katarina and Melis, Matteo and Tonelli, Sara and Garc{\'\i}a, Marcos}, booktitle={Proceedings of the The 9th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)}, pages={426--457}, year={2025} }