Profiling Bolsobot Networks*

Blog post by Emillie de Keulenaar, Francisco Kerche, Giulia Tucci, Janna Joceli Omena and Thais Lobo [alphabetical order] *This text was originally posted on the Public Data Lab webpage: https://publicdatalab.org/2022/05/05/profiling-bolsobot-networks/ Brazilian political bots have been active since 2014 to influence elections through the creation and maintenance of fake profiles across social media platforms (Pereira, 2022). In 2017, bots’ influence and forms of interference gained a new status with the emergence of