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Astroturfing and Abuse: The 2023 SAMbot Alberta General Election Report

We found that online abuse and potential inauthentic behaviour—including likely fake and artificially generated engagement—were prevalent during this election. These negative, harmful, and manipulative aspects of online civic engagement are democratic threats.

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www.samaracentre.caAstroturfing and Abuse: The 2023 SAMbot Alberta General Election ReportThe Samara Centre for Democracy monitored activity on Twitter¹ during the 2023 Alberta election as part of our SAMbot project, a multi-year machine learning initiative that measures abusive content received by Canadian political candidates on social media.