ExtremeBB: A Database for Large-Scale Research into Online Hate, Harassment, the Manosphere and Extremism

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04479v3
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:38:14 GMT
• Title: ExtremeBB: A Database for Large-Scale Research into Online Hate, Harassment, the Manosphere and Extremism
• Authors: Anh V. Vu, Lydia Wilson, Yi Ting Chua, Ilia Shumailov, Ross Anderson
• Abstract summary: We introduce ExtremeBB, a textual database of over 53.5M posts made by 38.5k users on 12 extremist bulletin board forums promoting online hate, harassment, the manosphere and other forms of extremism. It enables large-scale analyses of qualitative and quantitative historical trends going back two decades. ExtremeBB comes with a robust ethical data-sharing regime that allows us to share data with academics worldwide.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce ExtremeBB, a textual database of over 53.5M posts made by 38.5k users on 12 extremist bulletin board forums promoting online hate, harassment, the manosphere and other forms of extremism. It enables large-scale analyses of qualitative and quantitative historical trends going back two decades: measuring hate speech and toxicity; tracing the evolution of different strands of extremist ideology; tracking the relationships between online subcultures, extremist behaviours, and real-world violence; and monitoring extremist communities in near real time. This can shed light not only on the spread of problematic ideologies but also the effectiveness of interventions. ExtremeBB comes with a robust ethical data-sharing regime that allows us to share data with academics worldwide. Since 2020, access has been granted to 49 licensees in 16 research groups from 12 institutions.

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