Gab Posts Dataset
A Gab (alt-right social network) dataset of 22,112,812 Gab posts from January 2018 (13,871,421 original posts, 8,241,391 reposts), collected by Zannettou et al. via Gab API (2018). Each record contains post body text, username, verified flag, published_at, post type (post/repost), topic category, language, likes/reposts/replies counts, sentiment score, isPopular. 22,112,812 Gab posts from January 2018 — one of the earliest large-scale Gab datasets, capturing the platform during its growth phase as an alt-right Twitter alternative. Suitable for alt-right discourse analysis, fringe platform research, meme propagation, hate speech detection, cross-platform information flow, deplatforming research.
Cite this dataset at
gab-posts-2018.echo.directory
Analytics
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
gab-zannettou- Authors
- Fair, Gabriel; Wesslen, Ryan
- Year
- 2019
- Source paper
- Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 22,112,812
- Languages
- de, en, fr, pl, tr
- Collected
- 2018-01 (2010s)
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: the platform is used mostly there)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/2541324 link checked
- Original files as received
- The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-11-03, 8.1 GB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
- Data package
- Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (14,493,310 rows), users (147,874 rows), interactions (22,112,812 rows), x_topics (6,372 rows), edges (30,274,256 rows).
- Structure
- Directed network, Multigraph (repeated links), Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations
Citations
Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab
Gabriel Fair, Ryan Wesslen
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2019
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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-22.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Fair_2019,
title = {Shouting into the Void: A Database of the Alternative Social Media Platform Gab},
volume = {13},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Fair, Gabriel and Wesslen, Ryan},
year = {2019},
month = July,
pages = {608–610}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Fair, G., & Wesslen, R. (2019). Gab Posts Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Fair, Gabriel, and Ryan Wesslen. Gab Posts Dataset. 2019, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3258.