World Wide Web

Linguistics

Philosophy

Ecology

Biology

Window (computing)

The Internet

Computer science

Botnet

Empirical evidence

Internet privacy

Ukrainian

Politics

Social media

Political science

Epistemology

Data science

Mimicry

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

A considerable amount of data in social networks like Twitter is not generated by humans but by automatic programs (bots). Some of these bots are mimicking humans (socialbots) and can hardly be identified. In this article, we analyze a social botnet involved in the Ukrainian/Russian conflict. Based on text mining and unsupervised learning, we can identify three different behaviors: mimicry, window dressing, and reverberation.

Are Social Bots on Twitter Political Actors? Empirical Evidence from a Ukrainian Social Botnet