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跟踪选举:我们在厄瓜多尔总统选举期间的经验

Tracking Elections: our experience during the presidential elections in Ecuador

Daniel Riofrio, Anacaren Ruiz, Erin Sosebee, Qasim Raza, Adnan Bashir, Jed Crandall

摘要:

世界的数字化转型不仅影响了我们开展业务的方式,也影响了我们开展日常活动的方式。事实上,美国过去的总统选举以及英国(英国退欧)和哥伦比亚(和平协议公投)的选举都证明了社交媒体在现代政治中发挥着重要作用。事实上,这个数字政治领域充满了政治运动和政治候选人寻求公众支持(追随者数量),普通公民讨论社会问题的消息(充斥社交媒体的热门话题),甚至是支持或反对政治家或政治运动的政治宣传(广告)。在这个时代,社交媒体的一个问题是自动账户(机器人)的存在,这些账户人为地用虚假的追随者填充账户,创造虚假的热门话题,分享假新闻或简单地用宣传淹没网络。所有这些人为的信息都可能影响人们,有时甚至可能审查人们的真实意见,损害他们的言论自由。在本文中,我们提出了一种方法来跟踪选举和一套工具,用于收集和分析选举数据。特别是,本文讨论了我们在2017年厄瓜多尔总统选举期间的经验。事实上,我们展示了所有候选人如何在社交媒体(Twitter)上准备在线竞选活动,以及政治竞选活动如何改变了常见的追随者订阅率。我们讨论的追随者在第一轮和第二轮选举之间的期间的高存在可能会被自动帐户改变。最后,我们使用机器人检测系统,收集了超过30,000个具有政治动机的机器人。在我们的数据分析中,我们表明这些机器人主要用于支持或反对特定候选人的宣传目的。

英文摘要:

The world's digital transformation has influenced not only the way we do business, but also the way we perform daily activities. In fact, the past Presidential elections in the United States as well as those in Great Britain (Brexit) and in Colombia (peace agreement referendum) are proof that social media play an important part in modern politics. In fact, this digital political field is filled by political movements and political candidates looking for popular support (number of followers), regular citizens' messages discussing social issues (trending topics flooding social media), or even political propaganda in favor or against politicians or political movements (advertisement). One of the issues with social media in this era is the presence of automatic accounts (bots) that artificially fill accounts with fake followers, create false trending topics, and share fake news or simply flood the net with propaganda. All this artificial information may influence people and sometimes may even censor people's real opinions undermining their freedom of speech. In this paper, we propose a methodology to track elections and a set of tools used to collect and analyze election data. In particular, this paper discusses our experiences during the Presidential Elections in Ecuador held in 2017. In fact, we show how all candidates prepared an online campaign in social media (Twitter) and how the political campaign altered a common follower rate subscription. We discuss that the high presence of followers during the period between the first and second round of elections may be altered by automatic accounts. Finally, we use bot detection systems and gathered more than 30,000 political motivated bots. In our data analysis, we show that these bots were mainly used for propaganda purposes in favor or against a particular candidate.

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