A user who manages "tens of thousands" of troll accounts has admitted to having operated for the government

Social networks have already naturalized the use of "troll" users who Mbadaging messages or news on social networks for ideological reasons or simply for money. But the case of Gaston Douek He attracts attention because he is one of the people who handles the most false accounts: according to him, tens of thousands.

This was published by the journalist Hugo Alconada Mon, for the newspaper The nation, who spoke with the "troll lord", as they called Douek and confessed to leading campaigns for the government, as well as attacks against which the anger of the Cambiemos officials deserved.

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Report shows government has used 10,000 BOTS to campaign

Douek is a partner of Guillermo Seita, the owner of the sounder Management & Fit, who offer a menu of options including campaigns on social networks, positive and negative, with attacks of trolls and bots, as well as the dissemination of false news to attack opponents.

For example, in Change, increase the hashtag #YoVotoMM on the Thursday preceding PASO, a movement in which citizens and activists participated spontaneously, but intensive use of trolls and robots has also been recordeds, as is apparent from the badysis of behaviors in networks.

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Clarín acknowledged that the official trolls had met with the government a few days before the OSP

Attacks with trolls and bots on social networks and on Twitter, in particular, do not usually move the electoral ammeter in a linear fashion. they are used to install themes in the agenda, hoping that the media will address them and discuss these issues. With this action, they hope to attract an undecided voter or even put the rival candidate on the defensive, forcing him to a responsive agenda in which he must react to problems or approaches that have managed to settle in the networks.

But they are not only hired by the highest bidder, but there are candidates who agree on the ideological impulse of those who take refuge in false accounts. This is the case of Luciano "Lucho" Bugallo, MP candidate for Together for Change in Buenos Aires, who manages from his own phone about fifteen accounts with whimsical names on different social networks.

Bugallo was one of the referents of the movement that promoted Facebook and Twitter the most famous cacerolazos against Kirchnerism until December 2015 and was also one of those who operated in the networks for encourage mobilization at Casa Rosada last Saturday in support. of the government.