Peñabot

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the inauguration of a Honda factory in Celaya.

Peñabots is the name given to what analysts believe to be a network of automated accounts on social media used by Mexican government to spread pro-government propaganda and to marginalize dissenting opinions in social media. The bots were first noticed in the 2012 elections when they were used to disseminate opinions in support of Enrique Peña Nieto in social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.[1] During Peña Nieto's subsequent presidency, analysts have noted that Peñabots are used to overpower trending topics that critique government, to flood trending government critical hashtags with spam, and to create fake trends by pushing alternative hashtags, and to push smear campaigns and threats against government critical activists and journalists.[2] Peñabots can be distinguished because their pattern of activity is distinct from that of normal interaction activity in social networks.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

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References

  1. ↑ Salgado Andrade, E. (2013). Twitter en la campaña electoral de 2012. Desacatos, (42), 217-232.
  2. ↑ Erin Gallagher. "Mexico: Bot Campaign of Death Threats Against Blogger Rossana Reguillo". revolution-news.com.
  3. ↑ "'Peñabots' en Twitter, esquiroles de la protesta en México: experta (Nota y video) - Aristegui Noticias". aristeguinoticias.com.
  4. ↑ "How Mexican Twitter Bots Shut Down Dissent". Motherboard.
  5. ↑ Baker, V. (2015). Battle of the bots: Fake social media accounts on the attack. Index on Censorship, 44(2), 127-129.
  6. ↑ "¿Cuánto poder tienen los Peñabots, los tuiteros que combaten la crítica en México?". BBC Mundo.
  7. ↑ "Pro-Government Twitter Bots Try to Hush Mexican Activists". WIRED. 23 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Erin Gallagher. "Tracking The Mexican Botnet: Connecting the Twitterbots". revolution-news.com.
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