Toxic Text Classification

The users of the Internet increase every moment with increasing population and accessibility of the Internet. With the increase in the number of users of the Internet, the number of controversies, arguments and abuses of all kinds increases. It becomes necessary for social media and other sites to identify toxic content amongst a large number of content being posted by the users of the sites every second. The traditional algorithms that depend on users reporting toxic content for it to be deleted and necessary actions to be taken against the users posting the content would take a long time, within which it would have gained media attention and would have lead to huge fights over the content. Thus, it becomes important for the content to be evaluated for toxicity at the time it is posted in order to stop it from being posted. Therefore, we have designed and trained a deep learning model that can be read through the textual content given through it and determine if it is toxic or not.