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Twitter Death Hoaxes
This is a dataset for detection fake death hoaxes. It consists of of death reports collected from Twitter between 1st January, 2012 and 31st December, 2014. It was collected by tracking the keyword 'RIP', and matching those tweets in which a name is mentioned next to RIP. Matching names were identified by using Wikidata as a database of names.
The dataset contains 4,007 death reports, of which 2,301 are real deaths, 1,092 are commemorations and 614 are fake deaths.
Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28
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Papers archive 2025-07-28
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License archive 2025-07-28
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Variants archive 2025-07-28
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