Twitter Corpus of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement And Counter Protests: 2013 to 2021. (arXiv:2009.00596v3 [cs.SI] UPDATED)

Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized social movement protesting
violence against Black individuals and communities, with a focus on police
brutality. The movement gained significant attention following the killings of
Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd in 2020. The #BlackLivesMatter
social media hashtag has come to represent the grassroots movement, with
similar hashtags counter protesting the BLM movement, such as #AllLivesMatter,
and #BlueLivesMatter. We introduce a data set of 63.9 million tweets from 13.0
million users from over …

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