Documenting the Now
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Description:

The Unite the Right rally (also known as the Charlottesville rally) was a protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States from August 11–12, 2017, to oppose the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park, which itself was renamed from Lee Park two months earlier. Protesters included white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, and militias. This dataset contains 200,113 tweet ids collected with the #unitetheright hashtag. Data collection was performed twice from the search API using twarc: once at 2017-08-13 11:46:05 GMT and the other at 2017-08-15 12:03:48 GMT. The second search was run to collect only up to where the first search left off. The time ranges for the tweets are from 2017-08-04 11:44:12 to 2017-08-15 16:03:30 GMT.