Data

Attitudinally-positioned European sample dataset

Twitter users of 9 countries positioned along a Left-Right polarization dimension and an anti-elite/institutions dimension

See also Deliveable D2.1.

Reddit collective field experiment 2024

5 waves survey (pre, post survey + 3 check-in surveys, 4th check-in survey integrated in post survey wave) + 4 week discussion data in 6 experimental subreddits, 520 participants (survey waves with varying completeness), ~ 5600 comments internally, ~12000 comments externally (additionally, pilot data for 1 week, two surveys, 1 subreddit and 50 participants)

 Corresponding publication: Lisa Oswald et al. Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment, Science Advances (2026).

Anonymized retweet networks from German Twitter Trends 2021 - 2023

They were analyzed in the following paper:

Pournaki, A., Gaisbauer, F., Olbrich, E. (2025). How Influencers and Multipliers Drive Polarization and Issue Alignment on Twitter/X. To appear in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Vol. 19. 2025.

See also the corresponding github repository for more information. 

Telegram channel embeddings

This repository contains the dataset of Telegram channel embeddings accompanying the paper: Peeters, S. and Willaert, T. (2026), "Dark metrics" and the mainstreaming of political extremism on Dutch-speaking Telegram: A comparative reading of platform affordances". Platforms and Society.

Anonymized message classification data and actantial analyses of public Telegram channels

Anonymized message classification data and actantial analyses of public Telegram channels pertaining to the paper:
 

Willaert, T. (2023). A computational analysis of Telegram’s narrative affordances. Plos one, 18(11), e0293508.

An Inductive Analysis of the Kremlin's Weaponization of Digital Diplomacy on Telegram

This dataset accompanies the paper: Willaert, T., & Tuters, M. (2025). From denazification to the Golden Billion: an inductive analysis of the Kremlin’s weaponisation of digital diplomacy on Telegram. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12(1), 1-16.