While social media has been proved as an exceptionally useful tool to interact with other people and massively and quickly spread helpful information, its great potential has been ill-intentionally leveraged as well to distort political elections and manipulate constituents. In the paper at hand, we analyzed the presence and behavior of social bots on Twitter in the context of the November 2019 Spanish general election. Throughout our study, we classified involved users as social bots or humans, and examined their interactions from a quantitative (i.e., amount of traffic generated and existing relations) and qualitative (i.e., user's political affinity and sentiment towards the most important parties) perspectives. Results demonstrated that a non-negligible amount of those bots actively participated in the election, supporting each of the five principal political parties.

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在 Twitter 中发现政治社交机器人：2019 年西班牙大选的用例

虽然社交媒体已被证明是一种非常有用的工具，可以与他人互动并大量快速传播有用的信息，但它的巨大潜力也被恶意利用来扭曲政治选举和操纵选民。在手头的论文中，我们分析了 2019 年 11 月西班牙大选背景下社交机器人在 Twitter 上的存在和行为。在我们的研究中，我们将涉及的用户归类为社交机器人或人类，并从定量（即产生的流量和现有关系）和定性（即用户的政治亲和力和对最重要政党的情绪）角度检查他们的互动。结果表明，这些机器人中有不可忽视的数量积极参与了选举，