An analytic tool capturing the latest misinformation trend
I'm a dashboard summarizing what folks are chatting about on The Donald,
where many diehard fans of the 45th president congregate. Every few hours, I pull the
most popular posts from the landing page on The Donald, crunch some numbers and then show a picture of what they are discussing,
so that you don't have to go there.
Posts mentioning election, claims of election fraud in recent days
This stacked chart compares potential claims of election fraud or irregularity against election-related content in each day's posts.
Election-related posts were filtered through searching for keywords including "election," "ballot," and "votes."
To identify which of these election-related posts allege potential election fraud, a binary classification analysis was conducted with the open-sourced LLM model DeBERTa-v3-base-mnli-fever-anli.
(While there are certainly false positives, a volunteer and I had previously analyzed a sample of positive posts and found the macros to satisfactory.)
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Claims of election fraud and irregularity in the past 48 hours
The chart on the left summarizes locations mentioned in posts that likely
contain claims of election fraud or irregularity. The larger the text, the more
frequently the location was mentioned.
The interactive table on the right presents posts that may contain claims regarding fraudulent elections.
Try searching a location mentioned in the wordcloud chart in the search bar above the table.
Most popular posts from the past 36 hours
Top YouTube videos from the last 36 hours
Cross-platform sharing, an integral part of the internet and social media ecosystem, is often difficult to study.
YouTube has made up nearly 50 percent of the video content shared on this site. Analyzing the videos shared
on The Donald can help detect popular but misleading information on YouTube.
The "brief_description" field captures the first sentence from a YouTube video's
full description, if available.