Egyptian News Coverage of TikTok Influencer Prosecutions (2020–2024)
by M.A.F. Allam / DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
Metadata from five major Egyptian and Arabic-language news websites covering the arrest and prosecution of female TikTok influencers, a case labelled "the TikTok Girls" case. The dataset includes article-level metadata such as titles, publication dates, authors, and URLs. It was compiled by M.A.F. Allam to examine media representation and debate from 2020 to 2024.
Use Cases
Analyze media framing and narrative trends based on article titles and publication dates.
Study authorial and editorial perspectives on the case based on author metadata.
Track the evolution of public debate over time based on the 2020–2024 date range.
Conduct source analysis of news coverage based on the five specified websites.
Strengths
Data sourced from five major Egyptian and Arabic-language news websites.
Covers a defined four-year period from 2020 to 2024.
Includes specific article-level metadata like titles, dates, authors, and URLs.
Limitations
Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to the selected news outlets.
Provenance
Source
DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities Collection
Collection Method
Collected from online news websites.
Time Range
2020–2024
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-19 08:12:17; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Egypt
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