Published July 14, 2026 | Version v2.1

Two-Decade South Korean Naver News Comment Dataset for Troll Detection

  • 1. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
  • 2. Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Description

This dataset contains 112,658,554 comments from 4,047,831 users across 4,267,824 articles on Naver News (2006–2025), including 24,068 suspected foreign-state troll users (70 known trolls and 23,998 detected trolls) and 4,023,763 non-troll users. Usernames are partially masked to protect user privacy. Appendix A provides a detailed summary of the dataset statistics.

  • Title: Cross-National Information Attacks: A Two-Decade Analysis of Troll Behavior in Korea
  • Paper link: TBD

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