Manual Coding of Toxic and Insulting Tweets during the 2019 Federal Election in Canada

Data collection: Using Twitter's Search API, we collected 363,706 public tweets (in English) mentioning #elxn43 and directed at 1,116 candidates running for office during the 2019 Federal election in Canada. Tweets were collected between September 29 and October 28, 2019. Manual coding: The data set contains a random sample of 3,637 tweets (1% sample) hand coded as either 'toxic' or 'insulting' by using three coders. Only tweets that were flagged by all three coders were considered as either 'toxic' (TOXICITY_3CODERS_AGREE=1) or 'insulting' (INSULT_3CODERS_AGREE = 1).