Abstract

On June 24, 2022, the United States Supreme Court overturned landmark rulings made in its 1973 verdict in Roe v. Wade. The justices by way of a majority vote in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, decided that abortion wasn't a constitutional right and returned the issue of abortion to the elected representatives. This decision triggered multiple protests and debates across the US, especially in the context of the midterm elections in November 2022. Given that many citizens use social media platforms to express their views and mobilize for collective action, and given that online debate provides tangible effects on public opinion, political participation, news media coverage, and the political decision-making, it is crucial to understand online discussions surrounding this topic. Toward this end, we present the first large-scale Twitter dataset collected on the abortion rights debate in the United States. We present a set of 74M tweets systematically collected over the course of one year from January 1, 2022 to January 6, 2023.

Metadata

publication

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 17 …, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023/6/2

authors

Rong-Ching Chang, Ashwin Rao, Qiankun Zhong, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Kristina Lerman

link

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/22207

resource_link

https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/download/22207/21986

journal

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

volume

17

pages

997-1005