Analysis Q1 2025 toxic bot comments
The dataset of toxic bot comments detected between January 01, 2025 and March 28, 2025 has over 1.25K English messages (n=1,265). he average toxicity score was relatively low at 0.15, but a notable peak occurred on February 18, 2025. Several key events that could have influenced the spike in toxic bot comments activity but here is a full list of possible events. Despite the low overall toxicity score, the dataset contained problematic and harmful content with the toxic keywords coward, piece of shit, mf, commie, shithole, drumpf, german, jerry, and disgrace.
Prominent toxic categories:
Profanity (15%)
Racism
Politics and/or Sexism
Threatening content: About 5% of messages fall within this category
Disinformation content: About 3% of messages fall within this category
Most frequent combination of category: Politics + Religion (click here for the explanation of the different categories
About 3 messages (0%) are very toxic, with a score > 0.8.
Below is a visualization of the top 50 toxic keywords from the first quarter of 2025. The size of the words reflects their frequency relative to others. Notably, Trump was the most frequently used keyword, followed by immigrants, bioweapon, terrorists, genocide, killin and corruption.
The table below highlights the various toxic categories detected during Q1 of 2025 and their respective frequencies (represented by black dots and explained further below). The most prominent category was Politics, followed by Ridicule, Contempt, Racism, Sexism, Untruth, Jews and Religion. However, the categories with the highest toxicity scores were Racism, Sexism and Jews with an average score of 0.25 (on a scale from 0 to 1, where 1 indicates the highest level of toxicity).
The keyword analysis further supports the observed focus of toxic bot content on American politics and the expressed wishes of Trump with the word 51st state pupping up various times. There is also a clear antisemitic narrative within the categories of Politics, Religion, Untruth and Jews using words like zionist, israel and nazi.
The bar chart below highlights that the most prominent categories within the toxic bot content during Q1 of 2025 were Politics, Racism, Religion, Threat and Untruth. However, the majority of the content fell under the Politics category, indicating that a significant portion of the bot activity focused on influencing political discussions and narratives (see the explanation of the different categories here).
The keyword network below visualizes the main focus of toxic bot content detected during Q1 of 2025. Different colors represent clusters of words frequently used together, highlighting key narratives. They visualisation shows one narrative focused on Israel, connecting the word Israel to palestinian, terrorists, zionists and devil.