Bubble reachers and uncivil discourse in polarized online public sphere comments dataset

This dataset contains comments in Portuguese and English gathered from various sources, such as news websites from Brazil and Canada, social media sites like Facebook and Reddit, e-commerce reviews, Wikipedia comments, among others. Each comment is accompanied by a "toxicity" score provided by the Perspective API.

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Column information:

preprocessed_text: the text after undergoing preprocessing steps;

dataset: the given name of the dataset;

source: the dataset's source name;

dataset_source: a combination of the dataset name with its source to facilitate data aggregation tasks;

TOXICITY: a continuous score between 0.0 and 1.0 provided by the Perspective API.

In addition to the comments, there is a spreadsheet containing analyses referenced in the article associated with this dataset.