Photos of bot profiles that exclusively repost content from Álvaro Delgado
In the digital age, social media has become powerful platforms with the ability to influence public opinion in ways unimaginable just a few decades ago. As conversations move in real time, certain patterns and dynamics emerge, raising questions about who really controls the flow of information.
While some see these platforms as a space for free expression and the exchange of ideas, others detect the presence of invisible actors that can alter the course of crucial conversations. What forces are at play behind these complex virtual ecosystems?
Especially in decisive moments for a society, such as electoral campaigns, the role of these actors becomes particularly intriguing. In the Uruguayan presidential campaign, social media bots have been present, and the first of the certainly scandalous examples was the closing of the campaign of the Colorado Party candidate, Andres Ojedawhose broadcast on YouTube was invaded by dozens of comments from obviously fake accounts, with names in languages such as Arabic, Farsi, Armenian and even Hindi.
Many of them wrote the same message over and over again, with spelling and grammatical errors that would be inexplicable if they were really Spanish-speaking people. Ojeda himself celebrated that he had more than 40,000 views on the stream in question, but that number later dropped to just over 7,000, both numbers in question because the candidate’s channel has fewer than 1,600 subscriptions.
The bots that retweet Álvaro Delgado
Bots seem to be present in several of the presidential campaigns, and the National Party candidate, Álvaro Delgado, is not exempt from it.
In one of the most recent videos, published on Delgado’s official X.com account, several apparently fake user profiles can be found.
Many of them were created a few days or even weeks ago, and all they do is retweet videos and messages from the white candidate.
Many of these bots do not have followers and have never written anything in their own words: they only replicate what was disseminated on the official channels of the PN campaign.
They have no followers or followers. Well, some follow a few celebrity accounts, such as Janeth Jackson, Andrew Tate, Elon Musk or NASA, or other bots that, circularly, follow each other.
They often have poor quality photos on their profile and landscapes on their covers, but others didn’t even add photos. The names and surnames may appear to be real, but the arrobas (@), that is, the user, includes a large number of numbers.
