Summary: By automating post on facebook and twitter I can change the idea of the people

No one has so openly influenced the results of the elections as bots-and this is a huge problem.
The bots on twitter and facebook have manipulated the democratic process behind the screens and created, with their polarizing action, a rift in society.
They have distorted the reality, have flaunted force, have increased the number of hate comments, they demolished their political opponents, journalists, minorities and more nuanced opinions of putting pressure on their side.
In an electoral contest between two poles, as the American, they became an effective weapon.
On traditional media, Donald Trump has never been portrayed as a serious politician: his way of speaking, his rough outings, his strange entourage and its superficiality made it in front of any discussion of a candidate attacked-even when it was He appreciated for his skills as an entertainer.
Of course, the Republican from her had the capital in terms of angry voters, alternative narratives and many many money.
If he has really invested his possessions to clinch a better ranking on the company through the purchase of bots, we can not say for sure.
But it is clear that throughout history there has never been an election challenge in which the bots have played such a key role.
The bots have helped Trump to consolidate its conspiracy theories During the election campaign, Trump often argued that in fact the media was interpreting surveys in the wrong way.
The facts of this theory have resulted in a couple of written-and the growth of a network of right-wing populist culture Trump had not only the support of dummy accounts but also trolls Alt-Right.
The connection of these two forces has enabled him to gain ground enormously.
The followers of the so-called Alt-Right from the subreddit / r / the_Donald and 4chan board "Politically Incorrect" (/ pol /) have joined forces to manipulate in favor of Trump polls after the first debate TV, declaring him winner-how You can see in this thread.
Although the results of other polls showed far-Hillary Clinton was the winner of the first debate with an overwhelming majority the day-after publications such as Time, Breitbart, Heavy, Slate, CNBC, Drudge Report, Fortune, Fox 5 and Syracuse had Trump gave the favorite.
All other surveys had been previously posted on 4chan and reddit, accused of being fake because the numbers or statistical techniques used-along with a guide to vote repeatedly due to bots.
Picture: Twitter / @realdonaldtrump
It is this difference in the pro and cons surveys Trump has been used to support the arguments of the media conspiracy.
The army of misinformation has never been so great A media army of 400,000 Bot helped Trump with about 3.8 million tweets that have diverted the public's attention with unnecessary messages about the Republican candidate and poor Hillary Clinton conducted "the bot networks have diverted all the talk so that they fall on Clinton," says Phil Howard of the Oxford Internet Institute at Politico.
His team has been monitoring the traffic on Twitter during and after the TV debate that so much has influenced the opinion of the undecided.
"We found that, on Twitter, a quarter of the presidential election theme traffic came from automated account," he explained the researcher Bence Kollanyi, which deals with online propaganda to Motherboard.
"Trump has repeatedly asked his followers not to believe traditional media and turning them on alternative sources of information as a Twitter"
The bots were recorded by both political parties-but those who were on the side of Trump were seven times greater than those of Clinton.
"These bots have a small but strategic role in the election campaign.
They dictated the trending topics to spread quickly certain hashtag and misinformation "explained Kollanyi.
"For example, on election day we have observed that have been posted several tweets with the hashtag #VoterFraud by some automated account."
Bence Kollanyi found that the pro-Trump tweet bot exploded on the eve of the third televised debate: Amazingly, 46.7 percent of all content, with which you are certain hashtags more relevant to the presidential debate, were automated ( the pro-clinton bots do not fall in this percentage, but resulted in 30.8% of the total that evening).
Data on the evening of the election have yet to be analyzed.
The phenomenon is known: even in the elections in Russia, Venezuela and the United Kingdom on the occasion of Brexit bots have had a role.
But in the US elections bots have become increasingly complex and difficult to distinguish from the real account.
They are programmed in such a way so smart they can even interact with human users.
As a California research has shown just before the election, their contents were shared as much as those of real people.
Bots promote polarization and reduce the undecided between the first and the second debate, 33% of pro Tweet Trump and almost 20% of the pro-Clinton came from automatic account and produced about one million tweets.
It is sufficient to deflect the online discourse in a certain direction and to artificially inflate traffic on social.
"Trump has repeatedly said to his followers not to trust the mainstream media, so he diverted them to other sources of information as a Twitter" said Bence Kollanyi to Motherboard.
"Bots can provide skewed picture of the popularity of account, hashtags and topics and undermine confidence in social media."
At the same time, the mechanics of the bot supports the polarization of the debate through repetition, as has happened for the hashtag #CrookedHillar.
Although the FBI has spoken of a criminal act, the hashtag has established itself in the trend.
The function of automatic account allows you to set up an agenda in which certain issues are put into play when necessary, individual messages are retweeted thousands of times and hashtags are handled.
In this way, the different opinions or moderate ones are set aside.
As sosengono many studies about it, politicians bots have a tendency to show users the opinions in accordance with their point of view.
Even the siege against political opponents, minorities and journalists passed quietly.
Bots are the fuel of a new era, where the facts do not count, but only viral narratives.
Bots and trolls of Alt-Right have sought and found in this campaign If an account is a bot or not, it is difficult to understand for those who do research: some of them are managed by human beings, while others act in a totally self.
The BotOrNot Indiana Uni tool can only provide guidance.
Who is behind the bot network is almost impossible to understand.
But there is one certainty: a big enough network comes from Alt-Right movement made up of users of 4chan and 8chan.
Many of these bots are connected to each other and send messages and pro-Trump against Hillary.
Many of the contents are made up of meme that have to do with the theories against Clinton, such as those concerning his health, "he told the Daily Dot.
Bots are a reality and we have to live Image: Screenshot 4chan / pol /
Returning conspiracy hypothesis according to which the "mainstream media" would have hindered Trump: the "proof" that manipulated the results of the first TV debate, the Trump strategists managed to get across the message that traditional methods-such as telephone surveys and the media-were manipulated and not reflecting reality.
They followed on social and their virality was used as proof of success.
"On social media it does not seem that Donald should Miss: on any platform is two / three times more popular than" declared the conservative commentator Nellie Hughes in front of reporters.
True: on Twitter the following Trump is huge (13 million, 30 seconds him).
In addition, her figure has dominated not only the company but also in the search results Google.
How many of his supporters were in the flesh, however, it is hard to tell; Twitteraudit the service supports around 40 percent, one of the 'Atlantic Research has obtained much lower value, around twelve percent.
However, Trump has succeeded, even with the aid of technology, to establish itself not only as the winner in a fictional world, but also in the real one: Have you seen?
I won, I told you that the media lied, my followers are the best!
We got to the point where the bots and the trolls of Alt-Right movement have helped Trump and create his own reality, where with the help of automation and manipulation is always the winner.
Now we just have to learn to live with everyone.

From Vice