Hybrid Intelligence Strategies for Identifying, Classifying and Analyzing Political Bots

Political bots, through astroturfing and other strategies, have become important players in recent elections several countries. This study aims to provide researchers the citizenry with necessary knowledge design strategies identify bots counteract what international organizations deemed bots’ harmful effects on democracy and, simultaneously, improve automatic detection of them. is based two innovative methodological approaches: (1) dealing using hybrid intelligence (HI), a multidisciplinary perspective that combines artificial (AI), natural language processing, political science, communication (2) applying framing theory bots. paper contributes literature field by (a) analysis (b) defining characteristics signs automation Spanish, (c) building Spanish-language bot database, (d) developing specific classifier for accounts, (e) HI detect (f) tools enable everyday citizen framing.