iDRAMA-Scored: c/News

A Scored.co (c/News) dataset of 18,801 submissions and 18,518 comments from 647 unique authors in c/News (2020-2023), collected by iDRAMA Lab via Scored.co API (2024). Each record contains post/comment text, author, score up/down, NSFW/deleted/twitter-crosspost flags, date, UUID. c/News on Scored.co — General news discussion. 37,319 total posts from 647 authors over 4 years. Suitable for deplatforming research, community behavior analysis, alternative platform discourse, content moderation effects, longitudinal community evolution.

#Alt tech#C news#Fringe platform#Idrama lab

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Analytics

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648
Nodes
647
Edges
1.54e-03
Density
1
Components
0.0%
Reciprocity
647
Bridges
Most central nodes
c/News1
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00962d11a673acf5b07e7467b005df220
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Content metrics

37,319 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

score upμ 2.209 ± 3.158
min 0max 108
score downμ 0.103 ± 0.484
min -1max 14
is nsfw0.0% true
true 0.0%false 100.0%
is deleted4.2% true
true 4.2%false 95.8%
is twitter0.4% true
true 0.4%false 99.6%
is image0.3% true
true 0.3%false 99.7%
is video1.7% true
true 1.7%false 98.3%
9.8
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.8
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
bidennewtrumpsaysfloridanewspeoplecovidonlinepolicedailymailmanvideoyearschoolworldwhiteukrainecourtrussiastatedesantislikereporthousechinavaccineoldyearsbreakingwomanfoxgovbillblacktexasfbi000lawjudgewarmediaguntimerussiandeathdongoparrested
Topic clusters

Topic 0

police
man
shoot
gun
kill
arrest
officer
year

Topic 1

vaccine
covid
pfizer
pandemic
health
new
mandate
cdc

Topic 2

ukraine
russia
russian
putin
war
ukrainian
nato
zelensky

Topic 3

school
white
israel
student
gender
race
woman
parent

Topic 4

fuck
like
good
shit
people
think
want
know

Topic 5

biden
hunter
joe
poll
house
video
approval
trump

Topic 6

trump
fbi
raid
mar
lago
doj
georgia
judge

Topic 7

desantis
florida
disney
ron
governor
trump
bill
signs

Topic 8

abortion
court
supreme
florida
roe
wade
law
pro

Topic 9

election
gop
trump
republicans
mccarthy
arizona
republican
ballot

Topic 10

border
migrant
biden
illegal
texas
migrants
immigration
admin

Topic 11

water
food
climate
drought
plant
meat
eat
river
Show all 15 topics

Topic 12

inflation
price
rise
rate
high
year
gas
oil

Topic 13

musk
elon
twitter
tesla
dorsey
deal
tweet
takeover

Topic 14

trump
donald
clinton
hillary
graham
lindsey
msnbc
christie
Top hashtags
#17
#florida4
#142
#152
#covidvaxexposed2
#exposepfizer2
#metoo2
#putin2
#10441
#111
#121
#1281
#161
#171
#181
#21
#31
#60000011
#alllivesmatter1
#antifa1
Top emoji
🤡58
🤦16
😣14
🚨14
😂7
👍5
🤣5
🌎4
👁4
😡4
😲4
🏻3
👏3
🔴3
🤔3

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
scored-news
Authors
Patel, Jay; Paudel, Pujan; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Blackburn, Jeremy
Year
2024
Source paper
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023
DOI / arXiv
10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31444
License
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 (CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0)
Records
37,319
Nodes
648
Edges
647 (directed)
Attributes
nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
Languages
en
Collected
2020 to 2023 (2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://zenodo.org/records/10516043 link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 20.5 GB across 5 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023
Jay Patel, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro, G. Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn
Journal Article · International Conference on Web and Social Media · 2024

8
citations
few citations so far
1
influential citations
12% of all citations

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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{Patel_2024,
  title     = {iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023},
  volume    = {18},
  issn      = {2162-3449},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31444},
  doi       = {10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31444},
  journal   = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
  publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  author    = {Patel, Jay and Paudel, Pujan and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Blackburn, Jeremy},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = May,
  pages     = {2014–2024}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Patel, J., Paudel, P., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., & Blackburn, J. (2024). iDRAMA-Scored: c/News [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31444

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Patel, Jay, et al. iDRAMA-Scored: c/News. 2024, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v18i1.31444.

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