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YouNICon: YouTube's CommuNIty of Conspiracy Videos

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arxiv 2304.05274 v1 pith:LAYRA7LY submitted 2023-04-11 cs.CY

Shaoyi Liaw , Fan Huang , Fabricio Benevenuto , Haewoon Kwak , Jisun An This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CY
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Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study (Ledwich and Zaitsev 2020). Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory producing community or channel. Our data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.

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  1. Evaluating AI capabilities in detecting conspiracy theories on YouTube

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    Zero-shot text LLMs detect conspiracy YouTube videos with high recall but low precision, a fine-tuned RoBERTa remains competitive, and thumbnails add little value.

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