> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.moderationapi.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Toxicity & Hate

> Detect toxic language, severe toxicity, and hate-based content including discrimination, racism, and extremism.

These policies flag content that's hostile to readers or targeted at protected groups. They run on both sides of a conversation — what users post and what your bots or assistants reply.

## Policies

| `id`              | Type         | Supported                 | What it does                                                                                              |
| ----------------- | ------------ | ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `toxicity`        | `classifier` | text, audio               | General-purpose toxicity detection: insults, harassment, hostile language.                                |
| `toxicity_severe` | `classifier` | text, audio               | A stricter sub-classifier for severe toxicity. Useful when you want to distinguish "rude" from "abusive." |
| `hate`            | `classifier` | text, image, video, audio | Hate speech, discrimination, racism, and extremism — including image and video content.                   |

## Reading the result

```javascript theme={"theme":"nord"}
const toxicity = response.policies.find(p => p.id === "toxicity");

if (toxicity?.flagged) {
  console.log(`Toxicity ${toxicity.probability * 100}% confidence`);
}

const severe = toxicity?.labels?.find(l => l.id === "severe");
if (severe?.flagged) {
  // Treat severe toxicity differently — e.g. auto-reject instead of review.
}
```

See [Understanding API responses](/content-moderation/acting-on-responses) for the full response shape.