Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble
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| author | Kurek, Laura Zheng, Kevin Gilbert, Eric Budak, Ceren |
| author_facet | Kurek, Laura Zheng, Kevin Gilbert, Eric Budak, Ceren |
| contents | Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle. After publishing content on YouTube and Rumble for nearly a year, Tenet Media was declared by the U.S. government to be funded entirely by Russia -- making it effectively an outsourced state-sponsored information operation (SSIO). We present a complete dataset of the 560 podcast videos published by the Tenet Media channel on the video-sharing platform Rumble between November 2023 and September 2024. Our dataset includes video metadata and user comments, as well as high-quality video transcriptions, representing over 300 hours of video content. This dataset provides researchers with material to study a Russian SSIO, and notably on Rumble, which is an understudied platform in SSIO scholarship. |
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| spellingShingle | Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble Kurek, Laura Zheng, Kevin Gilbert, Eric Budak, Ceren Social and Information Networks Tenet Media, a U.S.-based, right-wing media company, hired six established podcasters to create content related to U.S. politics and culture during the 2024 U.S. presidential election cycle. After publishing content on YouTube and Rumble for nearly a year, Tenet Media was declared by the U.S. government to be funded entirely by Russia -- making it effectively an outsourced state-sponsored information operation (SSIO). We present a complete dataset of the 560 podcast videos published by the Tenet Media channel on the video-sharing platform Rumble between November 2023 and September 2024. Our dataset includes video metadata and user comments, as well as high-quality video transcriptions, representing over 300 hours of video content. This dataset provides researchers with material to study a Russian SSIO, and notably on Rumble, which is an understudied platform in SSIO scholarship. |
| title | Outsourcing an Information Operation: A Complete Dataset of Tenet Media's Podcasts on Rumble |
| topic | Social and Information Networks |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19802 |