title: Tweets in Time of Conflict: A Public Dataset Tracking the Twitter Discourse on the War between Ukraine and Russia
abstract: On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In the days that followed, reports kept flooding in from laymen to news anchors of a conflict quickly escalating into war. Russia faced immediate backlash and condemnation from the world at large. While the war continues to contribute to an ongoing humanitarian and refugee crisis in Ukraine, a second battlefield has emerged in the online space, both in the use of social media to garner support for both sides of the conflict and also in the context of
journal: Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media