An analysis of 113,000 tweets by President Milei was produced by Data Journalism Visualization (DJV) Bootcamp, which used as a basis 113,649 posts made by the head of state on X since December 10, 2023, when he took office, until September 15, 2025. The study determined that 16,806 of those posts by Javier Milei include insults or slurs, as reported by the Noticias Argentinas news agency. On average, the president makes 406 daily posts (his own and retweets), 60 of which contain insults or stigmatizing phrases. The tally shows that one in seven posts by Milei has insulting or offensive content. The most frequent derogatory mentions identified by the project authors are “kuka”, “casta”, “delincuente”, “mandril”, “degenerado”, and “terrorista”, among others. “The arrival of Javier Milei to the public arena, first as a TV panelist and opinion leader, then as a national deputy and finally as president, marked the beginning of a form of communication full of insults towards those who think differently,” they considered. In this sense, they concluded that the president “partially fulfilled his promise to set aside aggressiveness” in his speech, as he had publicly committed in August 2025. “The peaks of insults coincided with key economic announcements, showing how conflict and aggression function as tools for virality,” they interpreted. And in this regard, they added that “when the insult becomes a strategy and the algorithm rewards it, public debate is degraded, self-censorship grows and voices are silenced.” “Freedom of expression is not lost all at once: it erodes post by post,” they concluded. According to their analysis, one of the prime targets of Milei's constant attacks on social media is journalism. The insults were categorized into three language patterns: animalization, such as “mandril”, “burro”, “domado”, “rata”, and “parásito”; repulsion, such as “excremento”, “inmundicia”, “basura”, and “putrefacto”; and sexualization, such as “envaselinados.” “This type of aggression not only affects those who practice journalism, but also puts a fundamental principle of democracy at risk: freedom of expression and access to independent information,” they evaluated. Based on these findings, there was a formal consultation with the Head of Cabinet of Ministers, Manuel Adorni, and the presidential spokesperson, Javier Lanari, but neither of them commented.
