CONVEX Multimodal Misinformation Dataset

A X (Twitter) with Community Notes annotations dataset of 152,266 multimodal posts (21,845 AI-generated, 104,915 miscaptioned), collected by Chrysidis, Papadopoulos & Papadopoulos via X Community Notes (2026). Each record contains tweet ID, reply/favorite/view/retweet counts, Community Notes text and timestamp, and misinformation type label (miscaptioned / ai_generated / other). Large-scale dataset of 152,266 multimodal X posts with Community Notes — tracking the rise of AI-generated misinformation with 21,845 confirmed AI-generated posts. Includes engagement metrics showing that AI-generated content achieves disproportionate virality despite slower initial reporting.. Suitable for AI-generated content detection, misinformation classification, Community Notes effectiveness, multimodal misinformation analysis, virality and engagement modeling, temporal degradation of detectors.

#Ai generated content#Community notes#Miscaptioned image#Tweet ids#Virality

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Content metrics

152,266 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

is ai generated14.3% true
true 14.3%false 85.7%
is miscaptioned68.9% true
true 68.9%false 31.1%
reply countμ 954.996 ± 3.4K
min 0max 322.1K
favorite countμ 16.9K ± 48.8K
min 0max 2.4M
view countμ 2.3M ± 7.6M
min 1max 334.8M
retweet countμ 2.5K ± 7.2K
min 0max 378.4K
8.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
9.4
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
imagephotoquotpicturepostalteredscreenshotoriginalgenerateddigitallyfaketakenimagesrealaccounttweetshowspostedmisleadingarticlesourcephotosesttrumpeditedpeoplelikevideoquefalseshowncontextnewsevidencerightold2023fact2024ampclaimlogouneuserpersonyearsleft2022clearlyseen
Topic clusters

Topic 0

israel
gaza
israeli
hamas
photo
image
picture
attack

Topic 1

trump
biden
donald
photo
president
image
post
vote

Topic 2

fake
post
image
news
engagement
photo
article
picture

Topic 3

que
foto
una
del
imagen
por
con
para

Topic 4

est
pas
les
sur
des
cette
une
par

Topic 5

alter
digitally
original
photo
image
edit
photoshoppe
altered

Topic 6

photo
year
old
picture
image
price
post
day

Topic 7

generate
image
hand
finger
real
picture
create
photo

Topic 8

screenshot
tweet
post
fake
note
twitter
original
account

Topic 9

moon
nasa
earth
image
space
fire
photo
level

Topic 10

player
win
league
team
manchester
stadium
play
game
Top hashtags
#150
#lns45
#google_vignette41
#page27
#ad22
#brandedfeatures22
#amp_tf20
#mw19
#selection19
#read16
#tab14
#vhid14
#212
#echobox11
#v10
#scams8
#section8
#cite_note7
#gsc7
#id7
Top emoji
𝕏44
👇39
🔗28
🚨21
🇵13
🇳11
🇦10
🇪10
🇬10
🇷10
😹10
🇰9
👉9
🇨8
🇸8

Sampled: text metrics from 50K of 152.2K records; topic model from 20K.

Record

Catalog key
convex
Authors
Chrysidis, Zacharias; Papadopoulos, Stefanos-Iordanis; Papadopoulos, Symeon
Year
2026
Source paper
The Synthetic Media Shift: Tracking the Rise, Virality, and Detectability of AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation
DOI / arXiv
10.48550/arXiv.2604.15372
License
Academic research use — see repository (content subject to X Terms of Service) (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
152,266
Nodes are
unknown
Edges are
unknown
Text corpus
Community Notes explanation text
Languages
en
Collected
2021-01 to 2025-10 (2020s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://github.com/zachos99/convex-dataset link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 61.8 MB across 2 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

Citations

The Synthetic Media Shift: Tracking the Rise, Virality, and Detectability of AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation
Zacharias Chrysidis, Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos, Symeon Papadopoulos
Journal Article · arXiv.org · 2026

2
citations
few citations so far
0
influential citations
0% of all citations

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Citation data from Semantic Scholar, retrieved 2026-10-19.

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}
}

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2604.15372,
  doi       = {10.48550/ARXIV.2604.15372},
  url       = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15372},
  author    = {Chrysidis, Zacharias and Papadopoulos, Stefanos-Iordanis and Papadopoulos, Symeon},
  keywords  = {Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI), Multimedia (cs.MM), FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title     = {The Synthetic Media Shift: Tracking the Rise, Virality, and Detectability of AI-Generated Multimodal Misinformation},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year      = {2026},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International}
}

APA

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

Chrysidis, Z., Papadopoulos, S.-I., & Papadopoulos, S. (2026). CONVEX Multimodal Misinformation Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.15372

MLA

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

Chrysidis, Zacharias, et al. CONVEX Multimodal Misinformation Dataset. 2026, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.15372.

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