Bot comments Report March 2025
The dataset of toxic bot comments detected in March 2025, spanning from March 1 to March 28, included almost 94 English messages. The average toxicity score is 0.15, which is quite low. However, a significant peak in toxic activity was observed on March 27, 2025 (see this list of events that could have influenced it).
Threatening content: about 5% of the messages was categorized as threatening
Disinformation content: about 1% of the messages was categorized as disinformation
The most frequent combination of categories: Politics + Sexism
The word cloud below highlights the 50 most frequently used toxic keywords in February 2025. The size of each word reflects its frequency relative to other terms. Notably, immigrants was the most frequently used keyword, followed by trump, corruption, genocide and terrorists.
The table below highlights the different toxic categories detected within the March 2025 dataset, along with their respective frequencies (represented by black dots and further explained below). In this month, the categories Racism, Sexism, Politics, Religion and Threat were most prominent within the toxic bot comments content. Ridicule and Untruth received the highest toxicity score, 0.25.
The barchart below shows that all the content fell within the Politics category, indicating that all the bot activity was aimed at influencing political discussions (see the explanation of the different categories here).
The keyword network below illustrates the main focus of toxic bot comments detected in February 2025. Different colors represent clusters of words frequently used together, revealing the bot’s primary narratives. In this case, the keywords genocide, putin, syria and Sudan often appeared together.