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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: en |
| pretty_name: Truth Social Dataset (Limited Version) |
| dataset_name: truth_social_dataset_limited |
| task_categories: |
| - text-classification |
| - text-retrieval |
| size_categories: |
| - 1M<n<100M |
| source: Truth Social |
| annotations_creators: |
| - self-collected |
| language_creators: |
| - self-collected |
| multilinguality: monolingual |
| tags: |
| - truth-social |
| - trump |
| - politics |
| - social-media |
| - dataset |
| - json |
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| # Truth Social Dataset (Limited Version) |
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| **License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
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| ## Overview |
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| This dataset contains posts and comments scraped from Truth Social, focusing on Donald Trump’s posts (“Truths” and “Retruths”). |
| Due to the initial collection method, all media and URLs were excluded. Future versions will include complete post data, including images and links. |
| Contains 31.8Million Comments, and over 18000 Posts all By Trump. |
| As well as logged over 1.5Million unique users who commented on his posts. |
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| ## Data Schema |
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| ### Posts |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "_id": "string", // The post's ID |
| "owner": "string", // The user who owns the post |
| "text": "string" // The text content of the post (URLs and media removed) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ### Comments |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "_id": "string", // The comment's ID |
| "owner": "string", // The user who created the comment |
| "reply_to": "string", // The ID of the message being replied to |
| "text": "string" // The text content (URLs and media removed) |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ### Users |
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| ```json |
| { |
| "_id": "string", // The user's ID |
| "completed": "boolean", // Whether all posts were scraped accurately up to October 8 |
| "lastFetch": "string", // The last news post fetched for that author (posts only) |
| "resume": "string" // The last post ID fetched by the scraper for that user |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Notes |
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| - **Media and URLs:** All URLs and media content were stripped from this dataset. |
| - **Coverage:** Includes all of Donald Trump’s Truths and Retruths, except those that contained *only* media. |
| - Comments for those posts were still collected. |
| - **Data Collection Flaw:** Media-only posts were ignored, which limited completeness. |
| - **Scraper:** The current scraper is still running and will continue to collect new data. Future releases will fix previous collection flaws. |
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| ## Usage |
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| This dataset is freely available for research, analysis, and general use under the **Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0)**. |
| You are free to use, modify, and share this dataset, provided appropriate credit is given. |
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| ## Future Work |
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| - Re-scrape data to include media and URLs. |
| - Expand the dataset beyond Donald Trump’s account. |
| - Improve metadata completeness and scraping accuracy. |
| - Release updated versions with better coverage and structure. |
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| ## Disclaimer |
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| This dataset was collected for research and analysis purposes only. |
| It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Truth Social, Donald J. Trump, or any related entities. |
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