Trending Botics
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Shortlist / Digital Marketing / Creative Use of Technology / 2019
According to a study by FGV/DAPP, about 20% of all political discussions on social networks in Brazil are instigated by bots.
These malicious political bots impersonate real users in order to create an artificial engagement, commonly supported by fake news. That’s why, by combining an algorithm with the Twitter Streaming API, Congresso em Foco – one of Brazil’s most influential political journals – developed a platform on which users could follow and compare the topics most tweeted about by these bots and their response to every new significant event related to the election, up to election day
