Collargate 2.0: Digital Ethnographic Artifacts of a Platform Legitimacy Collapse

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Authors: Trent Slade
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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