Global Spider News Database (version 2)

A global database on the media representation of human-spider encounters in the global press. The database is fully described in this publication, which should be cited when using it:Mammola, S. et al. 2022. <b>An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites</b>. Scientific Data, doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01197-6An Excel file (.xslx) and a tab-delimited (.csv) version of the database is provided. Columns are explained in the metadata file.------ Change-log version 2:We updated the database following the publication of:Nanni V, Moioli I, Scott C, Mammola S (2025). <b>Social media filtering of sensationalistic news on spiders—a global overview. </b>People &amp; Nature, in press.We corrected several typos and added new variables (Deadly, Facebook interactions, Facebook shares<b>). </b>See <b>Meta_Data_V2.pdf</b> for details.