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Toxicity Scores & Embeddings

Search and explore comments with their Perspective API toxicity/prosocial scores alongside AI sentiment labels.

Communalytic | Toxicity & prosocial scores, embeddings, and clusters generated via Communalytic (Social Media Lab, Toronto Metropolitan University) using Google's Perspective API.
Toxicity Scored
55,769
9.3% of 596,542 total
Prosocial Scored
54,229
Embeddings
55,418
403 clusters
Avg Tox / Con
0.245 / 0.328

Summary Charts

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All 13 Dimensions

Score Distribution

Scored: 55,769
Unscored: 596,542 remaining
9.3% complete
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Active: "Poilievre will only win if …" 3 comments
The NDP is the perfect Petri dishe Singh was called out years in advance for putting his pension ahead of his NDP brethren. "parasite on society" And was willing to lie cheat and steal. No …
The NDP is the perfect Petri dishe Singh was called out years in advance for putting his pension ahead of his NDP brethren. "parasite on society" And was willing to lie cheat and steal. No sense of Urgency Singh could have pulled Off the biggest win in for the NDP but Greed got in Singh way 100 % From Hero with Jack Layton to Zero !! "lost Liberal decade" Pierre Marcel Poilievre for PM asap
LILLEY UNLEASHED: The fall of Canada’s once enviable … · 6: Cluster #5
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.020882076
Insult0.4596616
Profanity0.07514556
Threat0.009023022
Severe Toxicity0.01083374
Moderate 0.37795907 Moderate Con 0.405 Call_To_Action
Feb 17, 2026 48 likes LILLEY UNLEASHED: The fall of …
Dear Conservative Spokesperson: It's too bad you guys just can't help yourselves. Instead of criticizing policies or programmes, you feel most comfortable hurling personal insults. This is but one reason that Poilievre and Conservatives will …
Dear Conservative Spokesperson: It's too bad you guys just can't help yourselves. Instead of criticizing policies or programmes, you feel most comfortable hurling personal insults. This is but one reason that Poilievre and Conservatives will never win.
BATRA’S BURNING QUESTIONS: Canada’s absent and clueless Immigration … · 1: Outliers
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.012240025
Insult0.06739554
Profanity0.012687869
Threat0.0084793
Severe Toxicity0.0019550323
Low Tox 0.13908891 Moderate Con 0.451 Policy_Critique
Feb 27, 2026 2 likes BATRA’S BURNING QUESTIONS: Canada’s absent …
Poilievre will only win if he runs a campaign on fixing the immigration system.
Poilievre will only win if he runs a campaign on fixing the immigration system.
LILLEY UNLEASHED: The fall of Canada’s once enviable … · 3: Cluster #2
Close reading → Discourse → Video sentiment →
Identity Attack0.010951365
Insult0.011578901
Profanity0.0108774295
Threat0.007301235
Severe Toxicity0.00093460083
Low Tox 0.031213367 Low Con 0.201 Call_To_Action
Feb 19, 2026 3 likes LILLEY UNLEASHED: The fall of …

Perspective API Dimensions Reference

13 dimensions explained

Toxic (6)

Toxicity
— Rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable
Severe Toxicity
— Very hateful or aggressive
Identity Attack
— Targeting race, religion, gender, etc.
Insult
— Inflammatory or provocative language
Profanity
— Swear words or obscene language
Threat
— Intention to inflict pain or violence

Prosocial (7)

Affinity
— Agreement or shared understanding
Compassion
— Concern for others' wellbeing
Curiosity
— Desire to learn or understand more
Nuance
— Acknowledges complexity or multiple perspectives
Personal Story
— Shares personal experience
Reasoning
— Evidence-based or logical argumentation
Respect
— Politeness and consideration for others
Data sources: comment_perspective_scores, comment_embeddings, and view_comment_sentiment · Scores are probability values (0–1) from Google's Perspective API via Communalytic.