Research on Facebook and Twitter uses the database to identify race-related conversations by filtering millions of posts for specific epithets. 3. Sociolinguistic Impacts and Theory
The "Racial Slur Database" (RSDB) is a long-standing internet artifact that has occupied a strange, controversial corner of the web since the late 1990s. While it presents itself as an "informational" tool, its existence highlights the tension between academic linguistic study and the raw, often harmful reality of online hate speech Origins and Stance The database was launched in Racial Slur Database