The discussion-board site 4chan has been part of the Internet's dark underbelly since its inception, and recent political events have put it increasingly in the spotlight. In particular, /pol/, the "Politically Incorrect" board, has been a central figure in the outlandish 2016 US election season, as it has often been linked to the alt-right movement and its rhetoric of hate and racism. However, 4chan remains relatively unstudied by the scientific community: little is known about its user base, the content it generates, and how it affects other parts of the Web. In this paper, we start addressing this gap by analyzing /pol/along several axes, using a dataset of over 8M posts we collected over two and a half months. First, we perform a general characterization, showing that /pol/users are well distributed around the world and that 4chan's unique features encourage fresh discussions. We also analyze content, finding, for instance, that YouTube links and hate speech are predominant on /pol/. Overall, our analysis not only provides the first measurement study of /pol/, but also insight into online harassment and hate speech trends in social media.
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机译：自成立以来，讨论板现场4川一直是互联网的黑暗底层的一部分，最近的政治事件已经在聚光灯中越来越多地提出。特别是/ POL /，“政治上不正确”的董事会，一直是奥地兰2016年美国大选季节的中央人物，因为它经常与仇恨和种族主义的alt-over行动及其言论相关联。然而，4Chan仍然是由科学界相对不沉浸的：对其用户群地区知之甚少，它生成的内容以及它如何影响Web的其他部分。在本文中，我们通过分析/沿着多个轴来开始解决这个差距，我们使用超过两个月内收集的超过8M帖子的数据集。首先，我们执行一般性，显示/ POL /用户在全球范围内分发，4CHAN的独特功能鼓励新的讨论。我们还分析内容，例如，找到YouTube链接和仇恨语音是主要的/ POL /。总体而言，我们的分析不仅提供了/ POL /，还提供了对社交媒体的在线骚扰和仇恨语音趋势的第一次测量研究。
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