Donald Trump's Propaganda Tactics on Truth Social During the 2024 Election

A dataset of 1,319 posts from Donald Trump's Truth Social account during the 2024 U.S. presidential election. The collection includes variables about propaganda techniques and their targets. It was authored by Brock Mays and hosted on Harvard Dataverse, with a last update recorded on May 24, 2026.

Use Cases

• Classify propaganda techniques based on the described variables.
• Analyze the evolution of messaging tactics over the course of the 2024 election.
• Identify primary targets of communication based on the target variables.
• Train NLP models for detecting propaganda in political social media posts.

Strengths

• Contains 1,319 posts providing a substantive sample of communication.
• Focuses on a specific platform (Truth Social) and time period (2024 election).
• Includes structured variables for propaganda techniques and targets.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the variable data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update is dated 2026-05-24.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely collected via web scraping or API from Truth Social.

Time Range

During the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-24 21:59:09.