On the influence of social bots in online protests. Preliminary findings of a Mexican case study

社交机器人削弱激进主义者的情绪但不侵蚀其参与度

Social bots sour activist sentiment without eroding engagement

本研究通过分析2019年“反抗灭绝”抗议期间的推特数据，发现社交机器人互动显著恶化人类情绪，但未削弱激进主义者的参与度，且机器人影响具有类型和用户支持水平依赖性，凸显了开放数据的重要性。

社交机器人削弱激进主义者凝聚力

Social bots weaken activist cohesion

该研究针对2020年BLM抗议核心参与者的转发网络，发现抗议高峰期接触社交机器人会导致人类网络凝聚力下降，且损失集中在运动支持者中，机器人主要通过破坏集体行动纽带而非改变信念削弱激进主义。

Socialbots supporting human rights

Socialbots, or non-human/algorithmic social media users, have recently been documented as competing for information dissemination and disruption on online social networks. Here we investigate the influence of socialbots in Mexican Twitter in regards to the "Tanhuato" human rights abuse report. We analyze the applicability of the BotOrNot API to generalize from English to Spanish tweets and propose adaptations for Spanish-speaking bot detection. We then use text and sentiment analysis to compare the differences between bot and human tweets. Our analysis shows that bots actually aided in informa…