Bir Etki Ajanı Olarak Twitter: Rusya-Ukrayna Savaşında Twitter Botları

Year 2024, Volume: 20 Issue: 47, 99 - 122, 26.04.2024

Muhammed Hayati Taban , İsmail Gür

https://doi.org/10.17752/guvenlikstrtj.1396705

Abstract

Rusya’nın 24 Şubat 2022’de başlattığı saldırıdan bu yana dünya Ukrayna’da bir savaşa tanıklık ediyor. Bu savaşta Rusya’nın sadece askerlerini konuşlandırmakla kalmadığını, aynı zamanda Twitter botlarını da devreye soktuğuna tanıklık etmekteyiz. Rusya-Ukrayna savaşı bu açıdan hem geleneksel hem de sosyal medya gibi geleneksel olmayan alanlarda süregelmektedir. Bu bağlamda, çalışmamız savaşın ilk 8 gününde botların Rusya tarafından ne ölçüde kullanıldığını anlamayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla 24 Şubat ile 4 Mart tarihleri arasında Twitter’dan veri toplanmıştır. Veriler toplandıktan sonra, elde edilen tweetler için bir bot tahmini gerçekleştirilmiştir. Bulgular, Twitter’ın botlara oldukça hızlı tepki verdiğini ve Rusya’nın Rus Twitter atmosferini eskisi kadar istismar edemediğini göstermektedir. Bu açıdan düşünüldüğünde Rusya’nın Twitter’ı neden engellemeyi seçtiği daha iyi anlaşılmaktadır.

Keywords

Twitter, Botlar, Rusya, Ukrayna, Savaş, Sosyal Medya İstihbaratı

Social Media as an Agent of Influence: Twitter Bots in Russia - Ukraine War

Abstract

The world has been witnessing a war in Ukraine since Russia started its attacks on 24 February 2022. At this point, Russia has not only deployed its troops but also put its Twitter bots to work. The war has both covered conventional spaces and unconventional spaces like social media. In this regard, our study aims to understand to what extent bots were used by Russia during the first eight days of the war. To this end, we collect data between the 24th of February and the 4th of March. On data collection, we carry out a bot prediction for collected tweets. Findings suggest that Twitter reacted to bots quite quickly and that Russia could not manage to exploit the Russian Twitter sphere as much as it did before. Therefore, Russia chose to block Twitter.

Keywords

Twitter, Bots, Russia, Ukraine, War, Social Media Intelligence

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