A dataset on social media users' engagement with religious misinformation

Md Sayeed Al-Zaman; Mridha Md Shiblee Noman

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109439

A dataset on social media users' engagement with religious misinformation

Data Brief. 2023 Jul 22:49:109439. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109439. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Md Sayeed Al-Zaman¹, Mridha Md Shiblee Noman¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Journalism and Media Studies, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka 1342, Bangladesh.

Abstract

This dataset comprises Facebook data on five cases of religious misinformation in Bangladesh. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first publicly accessible dataset on Facebook-based religious misinformation in the country, featuring 7350 comments contributed by unique users. As online religious misinformation has been implicated in causing interreligious violence and tension in Bangladesh, this dataset can offer crucial insights into how social media is being exploited to foment such events. It may also help advance policy reform and activism to protect human rights and prevent the spread of religious misinformation.

Keywords: Bangladesh; Communalism; Facebook; Misinformation; Religion; Social media.