The MeLa BitChute Dataset
This provides a valuable resource for researchers studying alternative social media platforms, though it is incremental as it focuses on data collection rather than new methods.
The paper tackles the lack of comprehensive data from the BitChute platform by presenting a near-complete dataset of over 3 million videos from 61,000 channels over 2.5 years, including metadata such as comments and views.
In this paper we present a near-complete dataset of over 3M videos from 61K channels over 2.5 years (June 2019 to December 2021) from the social video hosting platform BitChute, a commonly used alternative to YouTube. Additionally, we include a variety of video-level metadata, including comments, channel descriptions, and views for each video. The MeLa-BitChute dataset can be found at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KRD1VS.