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Disinformation on Youtube: A Dataset of Youtube Comments on Videos Related to Claims Made by Trump and Vance on Haitian Immigrants Cover

Disinformation on Youtube: A Dataset of Youtube Comments on Videos Related to Claims Made by Trump and Vance on Haitian Immigrants

By: Ryan M. Omizo  
Open Access
|Feb 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.283 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Nov 15, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 2, 2025
Published on: Feb 12, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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