4chan × Political communication

4 datasets that are both from 4chan and tagged Political communication.

4 datasets.

Raiders of the Lost Kek: 4chan /pol/ Labeled Posts (2016-2019) Analyzed

A 4chan /pol/ (Politically Incorrect board) dataset of 134,529,233 posts across 3,397,911 threads (4,894,179 with 7-score Perspective API annotations), collected by Papasavva et al. via 4chan API + Perspective API (2020). Each record contains post text (com), thread ID, post number, country, timestamp, image metadata, 7 Perspective API scores (TOXICITY, SEVERE_TOXICITY, INFLAMMATORY, PROFANITY, INSULT, OBSCENE, SPAM), named entities. 134,529,233 4chan /pol/ posts with per-post Perspective API toxicity scores across 7 dimensions — one of the most comprehensively annotated fringe platform datasets covering 3.5 years of /pol/ discourse. Suitable for toxicity measurement, hate speech analysis, fringe platform research, political discourse on imageboards, cross-platform toxicity comparison, longitudinal hate speech trends.

134.5M records2020

4chan /pol/ General Threads Dataset Analyzed

Posts from 329 thematically distinct 'general' thread collections on 4chan's /pol/ board, November 2013 to May 2019, released by Emilija Jokubauskaitė and Stijn Peeters (Zenodo 3603292). 13,756,579 posts in 58,687 threads, one CSV per general plus an index file. Each row holds the thread ID, post ID, timestamp, body text, subject, poster name, image file name and MD5, and the poster's country code and name. Suitable for studying recurring political discussion threads, propaganda, hate speech and online subcultures.

13.8M records2020

4chan /pol/ 5M Posts Dataset Analyzed

A 4chan (/pol/) dataset of 4,998,945 posts from /pol/, collected by kjj0 via 4chan API. Each record contains post text content. A 5 million post sample from 4chan's /pol/ board, capturing political discourse, extremism, and online communities. Suitable for misinformation, propaganda, hate speech, political communication, online communities, extremist discourse.

5M records2020

M3 Hate Speech Meme Dataset Analyzed

A Cross-platform meme corpus (4chan, Twitter, Weibo) dataset of 1,318 hate-speech labeled meme records from 3 platforms, collected by Mira AI Lab via cross-platform meme collection. Each record contains image filename, OCR-extracted image text, post caption text, hate speech label, category list (politics/race/religion/etc.), and human-readable annotation reason per record. M3-Hate is the hate-speech filtered subset of the M3 meme dataset, with 1,318 hateful memes across 4chan (1062), Twitter (132), and Weibo (124) — multimodal with both image OCR text and post captions. Suitable for hate speech detection, multimodal meme analysis, cross-platform content moderation, image-text classification, harmful content research. The package includes the 1,318 meme images (img/) alongside the JSON records.

1.3K records2026