Harass, mislead, &amp; polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election

Nonnecke, Brandie; de, Gisela Perez; Choi, Annette; Crittenden, Camille; Cortés, Fernando Gutiérrez; Campo, Alejandro Martin Del; Villanueva, Oscar Mario Miranda

doi:10.1080/19331681.2021.2004287

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“…To increase readership of their message, General Bots and Bridging Bots make use of emotional appeal using the Engage and Excite maneuvers, rather than logical appeal. This technique has been observed in past studies where bots target emotionally appealing topics and are extremely effective with using emotions as part of their persuasive dialogue in both political topics [78] and general discourse [79]. News Bots attempt to make their short news headlines catchy, as evidenced by their high Excite maneuver.…”

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Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident

Ng,

Carley

2023

EPJ Data Sci.

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As digitalization increases, countries employ digital diplomacy, harnessing digital resources to project their desired image. Digital diplomacy also encompasses the interactivity of digital platforms, providing a trove of public opinion that diplomatic agents can collect. Social media bots actively participate in political events through influencing political communication and purporting coordinated narratives to influence human behavior. This article provides a methodology towards identifying three types of bots: General Bots, News Bots and Bridging Bots, then further identify these classes of bots on Twitter during a diplomatic incident involving the United States and China. In the balloon incident that occurred in early 2023, where a balloon believed to have originated from China is spotted across the US airspace. Both countries have differing opinions on the function and eventual handling of the balloon. Using a series of computational methods, this article examines the impact of bots on the topics disseminated, the influence and the use of information maneuvers of bots within the social communication network. Among others, our results observe that all three types of bots are present across the two countries; bots geotagged to the US are generally concerned with the balloon location while those geotagged to China discussed topics related to escalating tensions; and perform different extent of positive narrative and network information maneuvers. The broader implications of our work towards policy making is the systematic identification of the type of bot users and their properties across country lines, enabling the evaluation of how automated agents are being deployed to disseminate narratives and the nature of narratives propagated, and therefore reflects the image that the country is being projected as on social media; as well as the perception of political issues by social media users.

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Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident

Ng,

Carley

2023

EPJ Data Sci.

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“…13 "…social media village is susceptible to nefarious manipulation, including rampant harassment and echo chambers that silence political debates and amplify the spread of disinformation". 14…”

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The social media: the fortunate unfortunate village square for hate propaganda

Uzomah¹

2023

SIJ

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This treatise is a qualitative research in philosophy and literary studies and it considers fake news (misinformation and disinformation) from the perspective of hate speech. It focuses on the social media as the contemporary day smart village square for all sorts of hate mongering. This is one of the ill-starred pitfalls of the bandwagon called “globalization”. The buzz word ‘globalization’ is a catchword that points to the prevailing moment in human history of civilization and development-the age of digital-micro-lization of the world space. The fulcrum of globalization is communicative technologies. The presence of advanced communicative technologies or facilities like the internet, satellite, android phones and other related smart gargets has made global communication now easy and swift; since these facilities have the capability to move information from one part of the globe to the other (within a slit-second). It is in this sense that the world is now called a global village. However, the paradox of this village square enabled by the social media networking is that it is relishing and at the same time palpably fraught. Positively, social media is accessible, interactive, immediate and relevant; negatively, one among the numerous causes for alarm is the rising misappropriation of social networking sites for hate speech. Employing analytic and hermeneutical methods, the philosophico-literary discourse critically interrogates the misappropriation of this artificial and synthetic neighborhood for the proliferation of all sorts of inciting, poisonous, destructive, divisive, manipulative and inflammable speeches. This study reveals that two fundamental factors are responsible for the thriving of hate speech in this techno-neighborhood, i. humans nowadays are gullible to the point of naïvely believing any information from the social media as true and correct; ii. lack of censorship and quality control of most social media. Consequently, the ultimate goal of the chapter is to seek for philosophically pragmatic remedy to this malady in order to advance the frontiers of this creative and emerging technology. Therefore, the researchers present a number of philosophico-literary theoretical frameworks and modalities to stern the tide of hate speech explosion in the social media.

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“…Durante 2018, investigadores de la Universidad de California en Berkeley y del Tecnológico de Monterrey analizaron información en Twitter de las siguientes 22 etiquetas (hashtags): #BuildTheWall, #BuildTheWallNow, #Caravan, #CaravanaDeMigrantes, #CaravanaMigrante, #CaravanCrisis, #CaravanInvasion, #CloseTheBorder, #EndIllegalImmigration, #Hon-duranCaravan, #Invasion, #InmigrantCaravan, #KeepFamiliesTogether, #MigrantInvasion, #MigrantMob, #OpenForBusinessNotCriminals, #Se-cureTheBorder, #SendThemHome, #SorosCaravan, #SorosHondurasMob, #SponsoredInvasion, #StopTheCaravan y #StopTheInvasion. Se capturaron 674.603 trinos de 146.460 cuentas únicas, durante el periodo del 22 de octubre al 2 de noviembre de 2018 (Nonnecke et al, 2021), durante el cual se presentó la primer gran caravana migrante que partió de Centroamérica rumbo a Estados Unidos.…”

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Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital

Fong

Cortés

Villanueva

2022

Pacla

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Este artículo explora el fenómeno de asunción de identidades en las redes sociales y la influencia que tiene la inteligencia artificial (bots) para que agentes externos logren tomar ventaja de los momentos de vulnerabilidad de diversos sujetos. El tema se aborda desde la perspectiva que ofrecen los estudios de Jacques Lacan y René Girard, con el enfoque de la ecología de medios. La investigación se fundamenta en un análisis particular de manipulación en Twitter en torno del caso de la caravana migrante de 2018 y la propagación del discurso de odio.

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Harass, mislead, & polarize: An analysis of Twitter political bots’ tactics in targeting the immigration debate before the 2018 U.S. midterm election

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident

Deflating the Chinese balloon: types of Twitter bots in US-China balloon incident

The social media: the fortunate unfortunate village square for hate propaganda

Manipulación ideológica en redes sociales: acoso, engaño y violencia en el entorno digital

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