ClimateChat-300K: A Multi-Modal Facebook Dataset for Understanding Diverse Perspectives in Climate Communication
Researchers have released ClimateChat-300K, a dataset comprising nearly 300,000 public Facebook posts about climate change. The data, collected between May 2020 and May 2024, includes content, engagement metrics, and page attributes from over 26,000 global pages. Analysis of the dataset reveals that visually rich and emotionally charged content garners the most audience interaction, and discussions evolved in response to major global events. AI
IMPACT Provides a resource for analyzing public discourse and polarization in climate communication.