Collargate 2.0: Digital Ethnographic Artifacts of a Platform Legitimacy Collapse
Abstract
This dataset contains real-time digital ethnographic artifacts documenting the emergence, amplification, and resolution of Collargate 2.0, a multi-platform controversy involving livestreamers, aggregation accounts, moderation systems, and audience response dynamics. The archive consists of timestamped screenshots captured in situ during the live unfolding of the event, alongside a contextual transcript/analysis document. The dataset preserves native platform framing, adjacency, rhetorical emphasis, and engagement metrics, enabling analysis of legitimacy construction, moderation asymmetry, incentive leakage, and memetic closure. This dataset does not adjudicate factual guilt or innocence. All materials are treated as observed claims and reactions within a sociotechnical system.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Media and Digital Communication
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 15 January 2026
- Document type
- Dataset