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.
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