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Video of Peñabots attacking the #SobrinaEPN hashtag (Arturo Ilizaliturri Sánchez)
More than 75,000 automated Twitter accounts are being used in Mexico to combat protests and attack critics of the government, according to research presented by writer Erin Gallagher at the Chaos Communication Camp in Zehdenick, Germany last summer.
The automated accounts, known as Peñabots, first appeared in 2012 during the election of President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Peñabot activity during the election limited itself to spreading political propaganda in support of Peña's campaign, but, as Gallagher explained in her talk, "Mexican Botnet Dirty Wars," social media manipulation has since taken a darker turn.
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