Conspiracy theories are widely propagated on social media. Among various social media services, YouTube is one of the most influential sources of news and entertainment. This paper seeks to develop a dataset, YOUNICON, to enable researchers to perform conspiracy theory detection as well as classification of videos with conspiracy theories into different topics. YOUNICON is a dataset with a large collection of videos from suspicious channels that were identified to contain conspiracy theories in a previous study (Ledwich and Zaitsev 2020). Overall, YOUNICON will enable researchers to study trends in conspiracy theories and understand how individuals can interact with the conspiracy theory producing community or channel. Our data is available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262.

翻译：阴谋论在社交媒体上广泛传播。在各种社交媒体服务中，YouTube是最具影响力的新闻与娱乐来源之一。本文旨在构建数据集YOUNICON，使研究者能够进行阴谋论检测，并将包含阴谋论的视频按不同主题进行分类。YOUNICON收集了大量来自可疑频道的视频，这些频道在先前研究（Ledwich and Zaitsev 2020）中已被识别为包含阴谋论。总体而言，YOUNICON将使研究者能够分析阴谋论的发展趋势，并理解个体如何与阴谋论制作社区或频道进行互动。我们的数据可通过以下链接获取：https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466262。