The 2016 U.S. presidential election has witnessed the major role of Twitter in the year’s most important political event. Candidates used this social media platform extensively for online campaigns. Meanwhile, social media has been filled with rumors, which might have had huge impacts on voters’ decisions. In this paper, we present a thorough analysis of rumor tweets from the followers of two presidential candidates: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. To overcome the difficulty of labelling a large amount of tweets as training data, we detect rumor tweets by matching them with verified rumor articles. We analyze over 8 million tweets collected from the followers of the two candidates. Our results provide answers to several primary concerns about rumors in this election, including: which side of the followers posted the most rumors, who posted these rumors, what rumors they posted, and when they posted these rumors. The insights of this paper can help us understand the online rumor behaviors in American politics.
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Jin, Z., Cao, J., Guo, H., Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., & Luo, J. (2017). Detection and analysis of 2016 US presidential election related rumors on twitter. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 10354 LNCS, pp. 14–24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60240-0_2
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