ElectionRumors2022: A Dataset of Election Rumors on Twitter During the 2022 U.S. Midterms
Kate Starbird
Understanding the spread of online rumors is a pressing soci etal challenge and an active area of research across domains. In the context of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, one influen tial social media platform for sharing information — including rumors that may be false, misleading, or unsubstantiated — was Twitter (now renamed X). To increase understanding of the dynamics of online rumors about elections, we present and analyze a dataset of 1.81 million Twitter posts corresponding to 135 dis