Andrea Forero Cañizares Andrea Forero Cañizares Dawit Gebresilassie Dawit Gebresilassie Jenny Jiyeon Kim Jenny Jiyeon Kim Kaela van der Vaart Kaela van der Vaart Roberta Ramos Roberta Ramos This report explores how social media, particularly X (formerly Twitter), is used to shape gender-based political discourse, and how this contributes to ideological polarization in the context of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election. Using a transdisciplinary approach, we triangulated data from desk research, a qualitative survey of voters’ experiences, social media scraping of hashtags (#MAGA, #TradWife, #YourBodyMyChoice), and expert interviews from fields including computational social science, social media research, and online extremism. Our findings reveal that gender serves as a powerful ideological an¬chor around which political identities form, where social media can act as an accelerant to these processes, albeit not a causal relationship. We identify specific themes around which this relationship is explored, including the employment of ‘traditional roles’, the spectrum of feminism being redefined, the collapse of boundaries be¬tween online and offline spaces, the predominantly emotional na¬ture of gender-based political discourse as well as the mechanisms through which platform architectures can influence polarization. The report concludes with evidence-based intervention pathways addressing platform and algorithm design, human moderation, and community-based digital literacy approaches to mitigate harmful polarization while preserving democratic deliberation. PDFDocument eng 2026-02-24T07:34:50.626758Z Gendered political discourse Social media polarization Algorithmic amplification Platform governance U.S. presidential election 2024 Online harassment Identity politics Transdisciplinary research 13162896 b application/pdf http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/