While social media has been proved as an exceptionally useful tool to interact with other people and massively and quickly spread helpful information, its great potential has been ill-intentionally leveraged as well to distort political elections and manipulate constituents. In the paper at hand, we analyzed the presence and behavior of social bots on Twitter in the context of the November 2019 Spanish general election.

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[1] Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol, "Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election", IEEE Dataport, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/30ca-eg80. Accessed: Jul. 06, 2022.
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Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol. (2020). Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election. IEEE Dataport. http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/30ca-eg80
Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol, 2020. Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/30ca-eg80.
Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol. (2020). "Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election." Web.
1. Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol. Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election [Internet]. IEEE Dataport; 2020. Available from : http://dx.doi.org/10.21227/30ca-eg80
Javier Pastor-Galindo, Mattia Zago, Pantaleone Nespoli, Sergio Lopéz Bernal, Alberto Huertas Celdrán, Manuel Gil Pérez, José A. Ruipérez-Valiente, Gregorio Martínez Pérez, Félix Gómez Mármol. "Spotting political social bots in Twitter: a dataset for the 2019 Spanish general election." doi: 10.21227/30ca-eg80