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How Mexican Twitter Bots Shut Down Dissent | Motherboard

More than 75,000 automated Twitter accounts are being used in Mexico to combat protests and attack critics of the government, according to research presented by writer Erin Gallagher at the Chaos Communication Camp in Zehdenick, Germany earlier this month.

The automated accounts, known as Peñabots, first appeared in 2012 during the election of President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Peñabot activity during the election limited itself to spreading political propaganda in support of Peña’s campaign, but, as Gallagher explained in her talk, “Mexican Botnet Dirty Wars,” social media manipulation has since taken a darker turn. […]

According to Gallagher’s research, Peñabots also target individual journalists and activists for smear campaigns, death threats, and other forms of harassment.

The problem, she said, is that “social media is the new public square. Mexicans are relying on these networks to get their news out to the world and to communicate with each other… When these networks are manipulated, it is extremely damaging to Mexican society and free speech.”

“This is information warfare,” she added. “In Mexico, a hashtag is not just a hashtag, it’s a way to make the invisible visible.”