{"repo":"ParticipaPY/politic-bots","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ParticipaPY/politic-bots","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ParticipaPY/politic-bots.git","description":"Tools and algorithms to analyze Paraguayan Tweets in times of elections","language":"Jupyter Notebook","stars":36,"topics":["politics","twitter","bots","fakenews","machinelearning"],"license":"GPL-3.0","category":"workflow-automation","readme_excerpt":"Politic Bots Politic Bots is a side-project that started within the research project ParticipaPY of the Catholic University \"Nuestra Señora de la Asunción\", which aims at designing and implementing solutions to generate spaces of civic participation through technology. Motivated by the series of journalist investigations (e.g., How a Russian 'troll soldier' stirred anger after the Westminster attack, Anti-Vaxxers Are Using Twitter to Manipulate a Vaccine Bill, A Russian Facebook page organized a protest in Texas. A different Russian page launched the counterprotest, La oscura utilización de Facebook y Twitter como armas de manipulación política, How Bots Ruined Clicktivism) regarding the use of social media to manipulate the public opinion, specially in times of elections, we decided to study the use of Twitter during the presidential elections that took place in Paraguay in December 2017 (primary) and April 2018 (general). To understand how the public and the political candidates use Twitter, we collected tweets published through the accounts of the candidates or containing hashtags used in the campaigns. This information was recorded in a CSV file that was provided to the tweet collector. The source code of the collector is available at here and the CSV file used to pull data from Twitter during the primaries can be found here. Data Augmentation The accounts and hashtags employed to collect tweets during the primary elections were augmented with information about the partie","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ParticipaPY","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ParticipaPY/politic-bots/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}