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Incident I00035: Brazilelections
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Summary: Bot activity in Brazil elections
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incident type: campaign
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Year started: 2014
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Countries: Brazil , Brazil
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Found via: OII
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Date added: 2019-02-24
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- Bot activity that inflates the visibility of and perceived support for certain candidates and ideologies in 2014 elections.
- Campaigns use bots or spread content favorable to their respective candidates in 2014. Neves’ operation used bots on a much larger scale than the Rousseff’s campaign (on FB, Twitter and WhatsApp).
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- Facebook removed 200 pages run by individuals connected to the right-wing activist organization Movimento Brasil Livre related to the Brazil elections.
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