DiscordLeaks
Search hundreds of thousands of messages leaked from 180+ white-supremacist / nazi discord servers.
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Search hundreds of thousands of messages leaked from 180+ white-supremacist / nazi discord servers.
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Unicorn Riot is a non-profit media organization in the United States. In the course of its reporting on hate groups and extremist networks, Unicorn Riot’s reporters have collected Discord and Rocket. Chat, and Skype chat logs—often by monitoring or infiltrating private servers—and made them publicly accessible for journalistic and research purposes. The “DiscordLeaks” web app allows the public to browse, search, and investigate these leaked chat logs, primarily focusing on far-right groups.
Browsing Leaked Chat Logs
Users can navigate individual servers, channels, or participants within the archive.
Logs span multiple platforms (Discord, Rocket. Chat, Skype), with Discord being the primary focus.
Searching and Filtering
The site provides search capabilities for specific usernames, keywords, or phrases.
Basic and advanced search modes help narrow down results by date range or server.
Investigation of Far-Right Networks
The logs often reveal organizational details, ideological discussions, and event planning.
Researchers and journalists can identify patterns and connections between groups or individuals.
Public Access to Primary Source Material
Allows open scrutiny of communications that have historically been private.
Encourages transparency about hate-speech activities and extremist discourse.
Documenting Extremist Organizing:
Example: A journalist investigating a local protest or rally might discover planning details in the leaked chat logs.
Outcome: Gaining insight into the coordination, participants, and strategies of hate or extremist groups.
Tracking Cross-Platform Activities:
Example: A researcher might compare chat discussions on Discord with related user accounts on other social platforms.
Outcome: Revealing how certain narratives or calls to action propagate across platforms.
Verifying Claims or Rumors:
Example: A public figure is rumored to have participated in a far-right server chat. A search might confirm or disprove it.
Outcome: Fact-checking direct quotes or involvement in extremist communications.
Studying Group Dynamics and Radicalization:
Example: An academic researcher could analyze the text content of logs to see how extremist language evolves over time.
Outcome: Identifying shifts in rhetoric, recruitment strategies, or new ideological trends.
Server and Channel Logs:
Usernames, messages, timestamps, and attachments (where applicable).
Topic-specific channels, such as organizing events, sharing propaganda, or casual conversation.
Cross-References of Activity:
The ability to track a specific user across multiple messages or servers.
Potential references to external resources, websites, or memes shared within the community.
Data from Other Platforms:
Beyond Discord, archives from Rocket. Chat or Skype channels are also available, depending on what Unicorn Riot reporters collected.
Basic Browsing:
Channels: Within a server, browse channels to view sequential chat logs.
Users: Go to https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/users and select a user to view their contributions.
Basic Search:
Navigate to https://discordleaks.unicornriot.ninja/discord/search.
Enter search terms.
Choose to search a single server or all servers.
Advanced Search:
Select “Advanced Search” to refine queries further.
Specify a server (optional).
Enter date parameters (optional).
Click the “Search” button to view filtered results.
Beginner-Friendly (Web Browser Usage)
Basic searching or browsing chat logs is straightforward; it requires only a browser.
Moderate for In-Depth Research
Large-scale text analysis, cross-referencing multiple users or servers, and systematic data collection may require more advanced skills.
A modern web browser.
Stable internet connection.
Partial Coverage: This is not a comprehensive archive of all Discord servers, or even all far-right servers. It only includes servers that Unicorn Riot’s team had access to.
Potential Data Gaps: Some servers or channels might have been deleted or not fully logged, leading to incomplete archives.
Relevance: The data can be most useful to those who already know the group, channel, or user they’re investigating.
Unverified Accuracy: Logs are presented as-is. Names, time stamps, or content may be incomplete or contain disinformation.
Infiltration and Privacy: The content originates from private servers that were accessed through journalistic or infiltration methods. Though published publicly, it may include sensitive or personal information.
Content Sensitivity: Chat logs may contain hate speech, extremist rhetoric, or graphic content. Users should proceed with caution.
Legal and Ethical Use: Verify the context and consider potential legal implications if referencing this material in publications or research. Always handle personal data responsibly.
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Servers: Navigate to and select a server of interest.
Legal Evidence: The leaked Discord chats have been used in court proceedings against white supremacists. Notably, attorneys in the civil lawsuit (filed by victims of the Charlottesville violence) submitted Unicorn Riot’s Discord logs as evidence of planners’ intent
(). Observers pointed out that discussions in the chats (e.g. about weapons and running over protesters) bolstered claims that the rally organizers conspired to commit violence (). Prosecutors in the criminal case against the Charlottesville car attacker, as well as other civil suits, also reviewed the DiscordLeak logs for relevant communications(). In these ways, Unicorn Riot’s published leaks have directly informed investigations and accountability efforts after far-right violence.
Investigative Journalism: Many news outlets have cited DiscordLeaks to expose extremist activities. For example, ProPublica tapped the Charlottesville Discord chat dump to report how white supremacists joked about vehicular attacks weeks before was killed; while doing so, ProPublica independently verified the identities of at least two users from the leak to confirm the authenticity of the conversations
(, ). &#xNAN;HuffPost journalists used Unicorn Riot’s Discord chats to identify members of hate groups embedded in institutions – in 2019 HuffPost revealed 11 U.S. military service members as participants in’s Discord server, after cross-referencing the leaked messages (, ). Similarly, local reporters have used DiscordLeaks to link extremists to real-world actions; for instance, chat evidence from the leaks helped journalists document how members coordinated vandalism and propaganda campaigns nationwide (, ).
(). The large corpus of leaked chats provides rich text for content analysis – for example, researchers have analyzed the language and memes in Identity Evropa’s Discord conversations to understand recruitment and group dynamics(). Think tanks have also cited DiscordLeaks; for instance, the referenced Unicorn Riot’s Discord archive in discussions of how white supremacists communicate and plan online ().
Investigative collectives like Bellingcat have directly mined the data to map networks: Bellingcat’s researchers reported that Unicorn Riot’s archive contained over 760,000 Discord messages (Feb 2017–Mar 2018) from far-right groups, which they analyzed to track how fascist activists attempted to influence police and community events ().
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