Political violence against women and historically marginalized groups takes different forms depending on the platform used. During the 2022 elections, Telegram was a central part of the electoral dynamics, with far-right groups heavily involved in spreading political violence and hate speech on social media.

In order to understand how gender, race, sexuality and regional narratives were mobilized during the 2022 election campaign within far-right groups, we conducted a monitoring in partnership with the UFBA Digital Humanities Laboratory. The monitoring was based on the lexicon developed by InternetLab in partnership with AzMina Magazine for MonitorA. The research sought to understand the narratives circulating in Telegram groups around women’s candidacies and to understand how the hate speech circulating on the messaging platform is related  to discourse on other platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.