The phrase "a massive controversy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant disagreement or debate that has garnered a lot of attention or discussion.
Example: "The new policy sparked a massive controversy among the community, leading to heated debates in local forums."
Alternatives: "a significant dispute" or "a major debate".
More than 300 men died when the Belgrano went down, and a massive controversy erupted because the ship had been outside the maritime exclusion zone and sailing away from the Falklands and the taskforce.
Sheen's comments come in light of a massive controversy surrounding Robertson, Duck Dynastyy" and A&E.
Soon after the news of this public tragedy reached Athens, a massive controversy erupted over the apportionment of blame for the botched rescue.
2013 was host to a massive controversy when it was revealed traditionally white sororities at the public university in Tuscaloosa were still discriminating against black women.
Simply stating the undeniable truth that "nice people take drugs," caused a massive controversy in the relatively sane United Kingdom as recently as 2009.
That relief force won a surprising victory over the more experienced Spartan force in the Battle of Arginusae, but in the wake of that battle Theramenes found himself in the middle of a massive controversy.
The series debuted in 2004 and took a hiatus in 2007 after audio of Dog using a racial slur surfaced and caused a massive public controversy.
In August 2016 the social networking giant caused massive controversy when its messaging platform WhatsApp announced a privacy U-turn — saying it would shortly begin sharing user data with its parent, Facebook, and Facebook's network of companies, despite the founder's prior publicly stated stance that user privacy would never be compromised as a result of the Facebook acquisition.
Overshadowed, to a certain degree, were a series of statements from the Republican nominee that would have surely sparked massive controversy had they been uttered by any other presidential candidate in any other election.
Mandela was soon to be released from prison and President De Klerk had hinted at reform, but the country was still segregated and the tour caused massive controversy.
Any attempt to portray the perpetrators of the Holocaust as human, such as the recent film of Bernard Schlink's book The Reader, provokes massive controversy.
