Bot comments Report April 2025
The dataset of toxic bot comments detected in April 2025, spanning from April 3 to April 29, included 287 English messages. The average toxicity score is 0.40, which is quite high. About 5 messages (2%) are very toxic, with a score > 0.8. A significant peak in toxic activity was observed on April 14, 2025 (see this list of events that could have influenced it).
For example: “America is the Great Satan, and it is the one that kills innocent people, commits genocide, starves people, and steals Palestinian lands to please Netanyahu and the dirty Zionist terrorist lobby.” (source: unknown).
Toxicity often involved Religion (10%), Racism, Profanity and/or Politics.
About 10% of messages involved Threatening content.
About 5% of messages involved Disinformation.
The most frequent combination was Politics + Religion.
Some common toxic keywords included: zionist, kills, dirty, terrorist, satan, genocide, and palestinian.
The word cloud below highlights the 50 most frequently used toxic keywords in April 2025. The size of each word reflects its frequency relative to other terms. Notably, killing was the most frequently used keyword, followed by terrorist, palestinian, genocide and kills.
The table below highlights the different toxic categories detected within the April 2025 dataset, along with their respective frequencies (represented by black dots and further explained below). In this month, the categories Racism and Untruth have the highest toxicity score, 0.85. The most frequent categories are Politics, Religion and Threat within the toxic bot comments content. The keywords in the different categories show the focus of the bot comments lie with the war in Gaza.
The barchart below shows that the bot content with the highest toxicity score fell within the categories Racism, Politics, Religion, Threat and Untruth (see the explanation of the different categories here).
The keyword network below illustrates the main focus of toxic bot comments detected in April 2025. The words genocide, america, kills, netanyahu, terrorist and palestinian appeared most often together.