datasets
Multi-Ideology, Multiclass Online Extremism Dataset, and Its Evaluation Using Machine Learning
October 29, 2024Social media platforms play a key role in fostering the outreach of extremism by influencing the views, opinions, and perceptions of people. These platforms are increasingly exploited by extremist elements for spreading propaganda, radicalizing, and recruiting youth. Hence, research on extremism detection on social media platforms is essential to curb its influence and ill effects. ...
A Dataset for The Study of Online Radicalization Through Incel Forum Archives
September 16, 2024The incel (involuntary celibate) community is an extremist online community that practices intense misogyny, racism, and that glorifies – and sometimes practices – violence. Work to understand the dynamics within incel communities has been hindered by the fact that these communities are spread over many platforms and many of the more popular forums of the ...
Academics Call on Facebook to Make Data More Widely Available for Research
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Facebook’s Data Lockdown is a Disaster for Academic Researchers
August 22, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
FlockWatch: Tracking Changes in Language in Text Datasets Over Time
August 21, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Collecte de données dans la recherche sur le terrorisme et l’extrémisme en ligne: orientations futures
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
Data Collection in Online Terrorism and Extremism Research: Future Directions
July 23, 2024VOX-Pol Blog post. ...
There and Back Again: How White Nationalist Ephemera Travels Between Online and Offline Spaces
September 18, 2023This article represents an initial exploration of the content and posting strategies of the current wave of racist flyer drops in the US, focusing specifically on a dataset of all documented flyers posted in 2018. The dataset was generated by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and augmented by the authors. The dataset is unique among open ...