Matúš Solčány

Internet Research Agency Bot Remixer

Exploring the russian twitter troll bots through creation of fictional avatars

Internet Research Agency is a Russian institution responsible for the bots that consolidated tribalism and polarisation of the US population before and during the US 2016 elections. The agency’s medium of the greatest influence were the popular social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

The Remixer website asks visitors to remix the twitter bots’s profile images, names and their profile descriptions to create new profiles of fictional bots. This hands on experience aims to make the database accessible and familiarise the audience with the characteristics of these bots. The database used comes from the Twitter 2016 elections integrity release. The music for this project was composed by Ondrej Solčány.

Competencies

Illustration of enlarged busts covered with the russian flag sitting on the map of the US. Each head has a text bubble with tweets of the russian twitter bots
Illustration of enlarged busts covered with the american flag sitting on the map of the US
Illustration of enlarged busts covered with the american flag sitting on the map of the US. Each head has a text bubble with tweets of the russian twitter bots
a large bot profile image is surrounded by smaller profile images
Choosing the bot's profile image
the large bot profile image is surrounded by bots names
Choosing the bot's profile name
the large bot profile image is surrounded by bots profile descriptions
Choosing the bot's profile description

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