Unicorn Riot’s mission is to expose and illuminate the root causes of social struggles. To that end, we’ve produced an extensive online database of leaked internet chats from the most active white supremacist groups in the U.S., shining light on their organizing conversations meant to be hidden from public view. Millions of these chats are now accessible to the public and available for journalists and researchers to use in their own work.
Logs from over 80 Discord chat servers connected to racist right-wing activities have been published in the DiscordLeaks web app database maintained by Unicorn Riot. See our key investigations here.
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Through our reporting on the far-right, Unicorn Riot helps to demystify groups and movements that often cloak their intentions publicly while privately working to advance a discriminatory and violent agenda.
Neo-nazis, white supremacists and nationalists, the-so called “alt-right” and related phenomena can be difficult to understand. By bringing a large body of far-right communication records to light, Unicorn Riot helps researchers, reporters and the general public get a better handle on what are often confusing and counter-intuitive subjects.
Unicorn Riot reporters collect Discord chat logs and other documentation of racist and far-right organizing during our reporting on active hate groups, both in the U.S. and internationally. By publishing our own original reporting while also providing open source datasets to the public, Unicorn Riot enables increased understanding of strategies, tactics, and resources used by white supremacists.
The DiscordLeaks web app and other data releases, such as downloads of chat screenshots and HTML archives, allow concerned members of the public, as well as other media organizations and researchers, to read, search, and cross-reference leaked far-right organizing chats.
All of the DiscordLeaks software has been created by Unicorn Riot along with volunteer engineers who contributed countless hours to the project. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project and donated to support it.
Data sets downloaded from Discord can be browsed and searched at discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja; other data formats from other communication platforms are also available for download at the bottom of related articles. (Many of Unicorn Riot’s stories using leaked chats center on prolific neo-nazi groups. See notes about our definitions below)
A quick note on language and definitions:
Many of Unicorn Riot’s stories using leaked chats center on prolific neo-nazi groups. However, not all the chats published fall under the “neo-nazi” label. Academic researchers and experts sometimes use varying jargon to describe different types of far-right and white supremacist groups. Following common practices among analysts of the far right, Unicorn Riot only characterizes white supremacist groups as ‘neo-nazis’ if clear evidence exists of organizational antisemitic beliefs with roots in Nazi ideology. “Alt-Right” is a term commonly used particularly during 2016-2017 to refer to a range of Internet-savvy white supremacist and far-right organizations.
Any Discord chats in the public data set are connected to the wider far-right in a manner that makes the chat’s publication serve the public interest. Not every individual user shown in the logs is necessarily a white supremacist; however, any chat server whose logs we publish is connected in some way to far-right activity.
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