German QAnon Telegram Dataset

This data set consist of public Telegram channels, concentrated on German-language discussions of QAnon. The date range of the data is from the creation of the channel to 01 July 2021. To collect the data, I first downloaded the chat history of 3 channels (listed under "Primary"), counted the number of forwarded messages from other channels/accounts, and selected the top 5 most-forwarded-from channels/accounts from my Primary level, and used those most-forwarded-from channels/accounts as my Secondary level. I then repeated the process for the Secondary level, downloaded the chat histories and determining for the Secondary level the most-forwarded-from channels/accounts - the top 5 for each channel/account in the Secondary level became the Tertiary level. I repeated this for the members of the Tertiary level, downloading their chat histories and determining what channels/groups were forwarded into the Tertiary level, but stopped the process there. For the visualization, I used the unique channels/accounts as nodes and the forwarding of a message as an edge connecting nodes. Also included in this data set are the full text histories of the channels I collected data from, in the "Corpus" folder. The text of the messages were extracted from the JSON files of the chat history, leaving only the content of the messages. My own analysis of this dataset has been basic, but I hope other researchers find this data useful.<br>WF [e-mail]2021USE WITH ATTRIBUTION ONLY