Cross-Platform Violence Detection on Social Media: A Dataset and Analysis
Celia Chen, Scotty Beland, Ingo Burghardt, Jill Byczek, William J. Conway, Eric Cotugno, Sadaf Davre, Megan Fletcher, Rajesh Kumar Gnanasekaran, Kristin Buckstad Hamilton, Jordan Heustis, Tanaya Jha, Emily Klein, Hayden Kramer, Alex Leitch, Jessica Perkins, Casi Sherman, Celia Sterrn, Logan Stevens, Rebecca Zarrella · 2025
Violent threats remain a significant problem across social media platforms.Useful, high-quality data facilitates research into the understanding and detection of malicious content, including violence.In this paper, we introduce a cross-platform dataset of 30,000 posts hand-coded for violent threats and sub-types of violence, including political and sexual violence.To evaluate the signal present in this