A Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Electionhttps://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1M5KHXBlas, LeonardoLuceri, LucaFerrara, EmilioHarvard Dataverse2025-02-172025-02-22T10:23:56ZWith the intention of advancing the study of political discourse on social media and other topics permeated by politics, we present a Telegram dataset focused on the 2024 US Presidential Election, comprising over 43 thousand chats and 1 billion messages, and featuring chats' details, profile pictures, messages, and user information. This data is complemented by a record of inter-chat connections, where chats link to each other through mentions, links, text links, or forwards. This resource represents the largest public Telegram dataset to date, offering an unprecedented opportunity to study political discussion on Telegram.Computer and Information ScienceSocial SciencesLeonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2024. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset., arXiv, 2410.23638, https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.23638Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2025. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset., doi, 10.1145/3701716.3715297, https://doi.org/10.1145/3701716.37152972025-02-17Blas, Leonardo2025-02-15This dataset is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. For more information, refer to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. By using this dataset, you agree to abide by the stipulations in the license and cite the following manuscript: Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset. 2024. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2410.23638