Reddit Conspiracy Theory

Context

Cryptocurrency (r/ConspiracyTheory), is a subreddit where people discuss about various Conspiracy Theories.

The data is not filtered.

Collection

Reddit posts from subreddit ConspiracyTheory, downloaded from https://www.reddit.com/r/ConspiracyTheory using praw (The Python Reddit API Wrapper).

Script used for collection can be found here: Reddit extract content

Content

Data contains both posts and comments.
Both posts and comments contains the following fields:

• title - relevant for posts
• score - relevant for posts - based on impact, number of comments
• id - unique id for posts/comments
• url - relevant for posts - url of post thread
• commns_num - relevant for post - number of comments to this post
• created - date of creation
• body - relevant for posts/comments - text of the post or comment
• timestamp - timestamp

Inspiration

You can use the data to:

• Perform sentiment analysis;
• Identify discussion topics;