The Constant in HATE: Analyzing Toxicity in Reddit across Topics and Languages
This addresses the challenge of toxic language for social media users and communities, but it is incremental as it provides a cross-topic and cross-lingual analysis without introducing new methods.
The paper tackled the problem of toxic language on social media by analyzing toxicity in Reddit conversations across topics and languages, finding consistent patterns of increased toxicity for certain topics across six languages while noting significant variations within specific language communities.
Toxic language remains an ongoing challenge on social media platforms, presenting significant issues for users and communities. This paper provides a cross-topic and cross-lingual analysis of toxicity in Reddit conversations. We collect 1.5 million comment threads from 481 communities in six languages: English, German, Spanish, Turkish,Arabic, and Dutch, covering 80 topics such as Culture, Politics, and News. We thoroughly analyze how toxicity spikes within different communities in relation to specific topics. We observe consistent patterns of increased toxicity across languages for certain topics, while also noting significant variations within specific language communities.