Arabic Extremism Tweets Dataset

We present an Arabic Twitter dataset for online extremism detection consisting of 89K tweets with associated metadata. The dataset was manually annotated by three experts and achieved a Gwet’s AC1 score of 0.6, indicating substantial inter-annotator agreement. We performed further analysis of the tweet metadata to identify important features. For the extremism dataset, there were 89,816 tweets in total published by 52,929 unique users.