Figure 8
From: Russian propaganda on social media during the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Bot strategies. (a) Distribution of bot scores of accounts that retweeted human-made source tweets grouped by different time lags between source tweet and the corresponding retweet. (b) Distribution of bot scores of accounts that retweeted likely bot-made source tweets grouped by different time lags between the source tweet and the corresponding retweet. Hence, bots (but not humans) tended to retweet bots to promote the early diffusion of pro-Russian messages. (c) Here, we plot the average number of followers of mentioned accounts to analyze whether bots specifically targeted influential users. The mentioning accounts are grouped by their bot score percentile. Error bars indicate the standard errors. Inset: violin plot showing the distribution of follower counts for the mentioned user accounts in each bot score group. In violin plots, the width of a contour represents the probability of the corresponding value, and the median is marked by a colored line