# The MeLa BitChute Dataset

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05364 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.05364/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 45 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Feb 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

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- [What is Gab? A Bastion of Free Speech or an Alt-Right Echo Chamber?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1802.05287/) (2018)
- [On the Globalization of the QAnon Conspiracy Theory Through Telegram](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.13020/) (2021)
- [YouTube Recommendations and Effects on Sharing Across Online Social Platforms](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.00970/) (2020)
- [Reading In-Between the Lines: An Analysis of Dissenter](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.01772/) (2020)
- [Characterizing Abhorrent, Misinformative, and Mistargeted Content on YouTube](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.09819/) (2021)
- [An Early Look at the Gettr Social Network](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05876/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [A Human-ML Collaboration Framework for Improving Video Content Reviews](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09500/) (2022)
- [A Psycho-linguistic Analysis of BitChute](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.08078/) (2022)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper we present a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over 2.5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a commonly used alternative to YouTube. Additionally, we include a variety of video-level metadata, including comments, channel descriptions, and views for each video. The MeLa-BitChute dataset can be found at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KRD1VS.