Socialbots whitewashing contested elections; a case study from Honduras

2018/01/17 by E. Gallagher, P. Suárez-Serrato, E. I. Velazquez Richards · 1 voice
Computer Science · #cs.CY

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1165-9_50

published as Third International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 797 (2019)

arxiv created 2018/01/17 · arxiv published 2018/01/17 · arxiv updated 2019/12/05

Abstract

We analyze socialbots active tweeting in relation to Juan Orlando Hernández, the recently re-elected president of Honduras. We find a clear bimodal separation between humans and bots, using Botometer and its classifiers. Around one hundred separate communities of socialbots are identified and visualized, detected through the analysis of temporally coordinated retweets.

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• I collected tweets throughout the 2017 election (he won via fraud) and there was a violent repression of protests contesting his re-election. I published "Socialbots whitewashing contested elections; [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]

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