Twitter Bots and the Swedish Election

In this chapter, we present a study of how political Twitter bots were used before the Swedish general election in 2018. We have not restricted our study to bots that are a software program instead, we are interested in any type of bot-like automated behavior. This includes a human that manually copies or retweets content repeatedly in a robot-like way to influence the interaction between a user and content or with other users.

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