Analyzing Political Discourse on Discord during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Arthur Buzelin, Pedro Robles Dutenhefner, Marcelo Sartori Locatelli, Samira Malaquias, Pedro Bento, Yan Aquino, Lucas Dayrell, Victoria Estanislau, Caio Santana, Pedro Loures Alzamora, Marisa Vasconcelos, Wagner Meira, Virgilio A. F. Almeida · 2025
Social media networks have amplified the reach of social and political movements, but most research focuses on mainstream platforms such as X, Reddit, and Facebook, overlooking Discord.As a rapidly growing, community-driven platform with optional decentralized moderation, Discord offers unique opportunities to study political discourse.This study analyzes over 30 million messages from political servers on Discord discussing the 2024 U.S. elections.Servers were classified as Republican-aligned, Democratic-aligned, * These authors contributed equally to this research.