google/civil_comments
The dataset comprises publicly available comments from the Civil Comments platform, which served as a commenting plugin for independent news websites. These comments were created between 2015 and 2017 and appeared on approximately 50 English-language news sites worldwide. When Civil Comments shut down in 2017, the public comments were preserved in a permanent open archive for future research. The original data include the comment text, some associated metadata (e.g., article ID, timestamp, and the commenter‑generated “civil” label), but omit user IDs. Jigsaw extended this dataset by adding additional toxicity and identity‑mention labels. This dataset is an exact replica of the data used in Jigsaw’s “Unintended Bias in Toxicity Classification” challenge on Kaggle. Both the dataset and the underlying comment texts are released under the CC0 license.