A Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Electiondoi:10.7910/DVN/1M5KHXHarvard Dataverse2025-02-172Blas, Leonardo; Luceri, Luca; Ferrara, Emilio, 2025, "A Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/1M5KHX, Harvard Dataverse, V2A Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Electiondoi:10.7910/DVN/1M5KHXBlas, LeonardoLuceri, LucaFerrara, EmilioHarvard DataverseBlas, LeonardoBlas, Leonardo2025-02-15Computer and Information ScienceSocial SciencesWith 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.All scraped_part_* files must be downloaded and concatenated into one .tar.zst file. After decompressing this file, all SQLite files will be accessible, however, some columns were zlib compressed. Additionally, note that chats.db consins a record of inter-chat connections. Our GitHub repository (see the alternative URL in the metadata) contains a link to download individual .db files and instructions to get started with our dataset. For more details on the collection method, the schema, and to access an exploratory analysis, refer to our data papers (see the related publications in the metadata).This 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.2410.23638Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2024. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset.2410.23638Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2024. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset.Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2025. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public Dataset.10.1145/3701716.3715297Leonardo Blas, Luca Luceri, and Emilio Ferrara. 2025. Unearthing a Billion Telegram Posts about the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: Development of a Public 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