ASDCLAIMS: Twitter Dataset of Claims on Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder found in 2.3% of children. Despite its prevalence, fraudulent science and information on autism are pervasive and entrenched in our society. To comprehend and analyze misinformation on autism, we provide the ASDCLAIMS dataset, the first dataset of claims on ASD with topic labels. The claims on Twitter during the week of World Autism Awareness Day are collected using keywords and hashtags pertinent to autism. They are labeled with one of the nine topics, defined based on a keyword extraction method. The dataset and source codes are available at https://github.com/cozymichelle/AsdClaims.