Edu & Leo . Trending Botics -

002 — Congresso em Foco

TRENDING BOTICS

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According to a study by FGV/DAPP, around 20% of all discussions about politics on social networks in Brazil are instigated by bots.

These malicious political bots impersonate real users, posting and interacting profusely with tweets that further their causes, thereby creating an artificial engagement. This makes sure that a certain theme - often supported by Fake News - reaches a growing number of people and gains relevance.

That’s why, by mixing an algorithm with the Twitter’s Streaming API, Congresso em Foco, one of Brazil’s most influential political journals, developed a platform, where on a daily basis, users could follow and compare the candidates and political subjects most tweeted by these bots and their response to every new significant event related to the election, up to election day.

EVENTS
TIMELINE

Thanks to real-time data, instead of just explaining how the political manipulation on social media works, we showed it while it was happening. People could understand how daily events related to the election and candidates were being used by bots to shape their opinions on social networks.

SOCIAL MEDIA

These data could be visualized in real-time on our platform, and the highlights were turned into daily shareable cards, in which the activity tracked was summarized, in order to facilitate the understanding of social networks’ audiences.

CONTENT

During the election period, there were more than 30 content cards summarizing the findings, ready to be shared on social networks, mainly the strongest one in Brazil when talking about the elections: Whatsapp.