Parler Posts Dataset
ParlerContent moderationDeplatformingExtremismHate speechMisinformationPolitical communicationSocial graph A Parler (alternative social network) dataset of ~183,000,000 posts from Parler's full history before deplatforming, collected by Aliapoulios et al. via Parler API (2021). Each record contains post body text, username, timestamp, hashtags, upvotes, reposts, impressions, comment count, sensitive flag, media attachments, reply depth, parent post ID. Complete Parler post archive from before the platform's deplatforming — includes Jan 6 Capitol riot content, far-right discourse, and cross-posts from Twitter. Suitable for deplatforming research, far-right discourse analysis, January 6th research, hate speech detection, alternative platform behavior, content moderation effects.
Cite this dataset at
parler-posts.echo.directory
Analytics
The full graph has 204,790 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
parler-posts- Authors
- Aliapoulios, Max; Bevensee, Emmi; Blackburn, Jeremy; Bradlyn, Barry; De Cristofaro, Emiliano; Stringhini, Gianluca; Zannettou, Savvas
- Year
- 2021
- Source paper
- A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18117
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 183,000,000
- Nodes
- 204,790
- Edges
- 500,000 (directed)
- Attributes
- nodes have no attributes; edges have no attributes
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2020 (2020s)
- Tasks
- From the graph: link prediction, community detection
- Region
- United States · North America (inferred: the platform is used mostly there)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/4442460 link checked
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 31.8 GB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@article{Aliapoulios_2021,
title = {A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network},
volume = {15},
issn = {2162-3449},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18117},
doi = {10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18117},
journal = {Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media},
publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
author = {Aliapoulios, Max and Bevensee, Emmi and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Zannettou, Savvas},
year = {2021},
month = May,
pages = {943–951}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Aliapoulios, M., Bevensee, E., Blackburn, J., Bradlyn, B., De Cristofaro, E., Stringhini, G., & Zannettou, S. (2021). Parler Posts Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18117
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Aliapoulios, Max, et al. Parler Posts Dataset. 2021, doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18117.