Dear all, I am delighted to release a Sina Weibo dataset containing 1.2 million COVID-19 related posts collected between December 1, 2019 and February 27, 2020 by Weiboscope. It also includes 2,104 censored weibos. I hope the data release can support global researchers to investigate how Chinese government controlled online information in the early stage of the pandemic. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12199038 Here is the data description. COVID-19 related Weibo Data from "Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID-19?" Between December 1, 2019 and February 27, 2020, Weiboscope collected 11,362,502 posts, among which 1,230,353 contain at least an outbreak-related keyword (please refer to the paper) and 2,104 (1.7 per 1,000) have been censored. Data fields: Column 1: "created_at": date of publication Column 2: "censorship_type": directly censored (return of "permission_denied") or retweet of censored post ("retweet of a “permission denied” post") Column 3: "id_hashed": hashed post ID Column 4: "retweeted_status_hashed": hashed retweet status Column 5: "text_cleaned": text body with all @XXX mentions removed Please cite the reference King-wa Fu & Yuner Zhu (2020) Did the world overlook the media’s early warning of COVID-19?, Journal of Risk Research, DOI: 10.1080/13669877.2020.1756380 King-wa Fu Journalism and Media Studies Centre The University of Hong Kong