Social media interactions represent one of the primary methods to connect and interact with others, and people rely on them as a primary source of news and information in general. Despite considering these contents as trustworthy knowledge, social media manipulation has been demonstrated as one of the most significant problems of the 21st century. Posts and interactions, especially when related to sensitive subjects like politics, are prone to misinformation and polarised stories. The paper at hand summarises the published article «Spotting Political Social Bots in Twitter» by the same authors, presenting the findings that emerged from the analysis of the Twitter interactions in the 38 days leading to the Spanish elections of Nov. 10th, 2019. The collected data and the subsequent analysis confirms non-negligible, automated and coordinated social bots activities related to the five main political parties.

This work would not have been possible without the inestimable contribution of:

• Javier Pastor-Galindo
• Mattia Zago
• Pantaleone Nespoli
• Sergio López Bernal
• Alberto Huertas Celdrán
• Manuel Gil Pérez
• José A. Ruipérez Valiente
• Gregorio Martínez Pérez

Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio López Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol, «A Review of Spotting political social bots in Twitter: A use case of the 2019 Spanish general election«, 6th National Conference on Cybersecurity (JNIC 2021), ISBN 978-84-9044-463-4, pp. 103-104, 09-10/06/2021

• Website: 6th National Conference on Cybersecurity (JNIC 2021)
• Date: 09-10/06/2021
• Venue: Online