In this section we detail the discussions we use to test our metric and how we determine the ground truth (i.e. if the discussion is controversial or not). We use thirty different discussions that took place between March 2015 and June 2019, half of them with controversy and half without it. We considered discussions in four different languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish and French, occurring in five regions over the world: South and North America, Western Europe, Central and Southern Asia. We also studied these discussions taking first 140 characters and then 280 from each tweet to analyze the difference in performance and computing time wrt the length of the posts.

 
 Question: How many languages do they experiment with?
four different languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish and French