Pro-democracy platform advocacy: A dataset of public Facebook content

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mai Van Tran, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Version:  View help for Version V3

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Project Citation: 

Tran, Mai Van. Pro-democracy platform advocacy: A dataset of public Facebook content. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-02. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209902V3

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary An anonymised dataset of public Burmese, Thai, and Khmer Facebook content posted during March - April 2024. We first looked for public Facebook accounts or keywords associated with Myanmar, Cambodian, and Thai authoritarian content, including pro-regime propaganda, anti-dissident disinformation, promotion of anti-dissident violence, or anti-dissident doxing content. We used CrowdTangle – Meta's own social media monitoring tool – to capture content on a daily basis based on our list of authoritarian accounts and keywords.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources European Commission (101062975)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms social media; authoritarian content; Thai; Burmese; Khmer
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 3/1/2024 – 4/30/2024
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 3/2/2024 – 5/1/2024
Universe:  View help for Universe Publicly available Burmese, Thai, and Khmer social media posts on Facebook
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) observational data

Methodology

Sampling:  View help for Sampling We first looked for public Facebook accounts or keywords associated with Myanmar, Cambodian, and Thai authoritarian content, including pro-regime propaganda, anti-dissident disinformation, promotion of anti-dissident violence, or anti-dissident doxing content. Then, we we used CrowdTangle – Meta's own social media monitoring tool – to capture content on a daily basis based on our list of authoritarian accounts and keywords.
Data Source:  View help for Data Source Publicly available Burmese, Thai, and Khmer social media posts on Facebook
Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation social media post

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V4 [2024-11-04]

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