DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14704627
title: Dataset for the "The Schwurbelarchiv: a German Language Telegram dataset for the Study of Conspiracy Theories" paper

description: Dataset for the "The Schwurbelarchiv: a German Language Telegram dataset for the Study of Conspiracy Theories" paper.

 

For access to the dataset, please contact Prof. Jana Lasser at jana.lasser@uni-graz.at . 

 

The file schwurbelarchiv_full.csv (38.9GB) has 57,288,417 entries and contains the fields:





uid: message UID (string)

group_name: Name of the group or channel (string).

mid_message: Unique ID of the message in the group (int).

mid_file: Unique ID of the file in the group (int).

posting_date: Date and time of the message in the group (string).

fwd_posting_date_message: Date and time of the message in the original group (string).

posting_date_file: Date and time of the file in the group (string).

fwd_posting_date_file: Date and time of the file in the original group (string).

message: Content of the message (string).

fwd_message: Content of the forwarded message (string).

transcribed_message: Transcribed content from speech-containing media files (string).

fwd_transcribed_message: Transcribed content from speech-containing media files in forwarded messages (string).

link_url: URL found in the message, typically in an HTML <a> tag (string).

website: The website associated with the link URL (string).

replied_to: UID of the message being replied to (string).

message_id: Either the mid_message or mid_file (int).

media_file: Name of the attached media file (string).

media_file_type: Type of media file ("voice message", "video", or "photo") (string).

fwd_media_file: Internal path of a forwarded media file (string).

fwd_media_file_type: Type of forwarded media file ("voice message", "video", or "photo") (string).

day: Day of the month (int, 1–31).

day_of_year: Day of the year (int, 1–366).

weekday: Day of the week (int, 1–7).

week: Week of the year (int, 1–52).

month: Month of the year (int, 1–12).

year: Year (int).

message_hash: Hashed value of the message content for network detection (string).

fwd_message_hash: Hashed value of the forwarded message content for network detection (string).

author: Hashed name of the message author (string).

fwd_author: Hashed name of the forwarded message author (string).

lang_message: Language detected in the message (string).

lang_fwd_message: Language detected in the forwarded message (string).

is_unused: Indicates if the message originated from flagged ("dump") groups (boolean).

file_size_mb: Size of the attached media file in the message (float).

fwd_file_size_mb: Size of the attached media file in the forwarded message (float).

duration_sec_audio: Duration of the audio file in the message (float, seconds).

fwd_duration_sec_audio: Duration of the audio file in the forwarded message (float, seconds).

duration_sec_video: Duration of the video file in the message (float, seconds).

fwd_duration_sec_video: Duration of the video file in the forwarded message (float, seconds).

file_exists: Indicates if the referenced media file was found in the data (boolean).

file_error: Indicates if the referenced media file was parseable (boolean).