Collection of tweets related to the "Dark MAGA" hashtag

Listed in Datasets

By Matthew N. Hannah

Purdue University

Collection of 1,700 tweets related to the Dark MAGA movement, scraped from Twitter from April 2022 to November 2022, leading up to the 2022 Midterm Elections. Dark MAGA is a particular aesthetic related to far-right political movements.

Additional materials available

Version 1.0 - published on 29 Nov 2022 doi:10.4231/C6E8-JM62 - cite this Archived on 29 Dec 2022

Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal

0 citation(s)

1057 total view(s), 72 download(s)

Description

Tweets were scraped using Martin Hawksey's Twitter Archiving Google Sheets (read more here). Hashtags selected included #DarkMAGA, #darkMAGA, and #darkmaga. This collection of tweets includes posts discussing various aspects of the Dark MAGA movement, including both advocates for and attacks on the movement. Dark MAGA is a far-right social media phenomenon focused on President Trump's 2024 reelection campaign featuring violent imagery and revenge fantasies regarding the allegedly stolen 2020 elections..

Cite this work

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Tags

  1. conspiracy theories
  2. Dark MAGA
  3. Extremism
  4. information studies
  5. internet studies
  6. Library Science
  7. Library Science (Dept)
  8. media studies
  9. Politics
  10. QAnon
  11. Twitter

Notes

As with all Twitter data, this collection should not be viewed as comprehensive but rather provides a snapshot of Twitter discourse about Dark MAGA leading up to the Midterm Elections in 2022.

The Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) is a university core research facility provided by the Purdue University Libraries and the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships, with support from additional campus partners.