{"id":2351044,"date":"2026-03-30T06:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2351044"},"modified":"2026-03-30T06:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T06:25:04","slug":"chappell-roan-bodyguard-controversy-fuelled-by-online-bots-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/chappell-roan-bodyguard-controversy-fuelled-by-online-bots-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Chappell Roan bodyguard controversy fuelled by online bots, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Roan (28) has recently faced considerable backlash over accusations made by Brazilian soccer star Jorginho that a bodyguard berated his wife, singer Catherine Harding, and stepdaughter \u2013 whom Harding shares with actor Jude Law \u2013 following an encounter with Roan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The <span class=\"italic\">Pink Pony Club<\/span> singer has since spoken out, denying that the security guard was part of her personal detail and insisting that she was not aware of the incident. Still, Roan\u2019s character has been thrown into question as she faces intense scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">However, it appears that much of the online criticism was generated by bots, according to a report by AI-driven behavioural intelligence platform Gudea.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop5 indo-26838ee5_paddingbottom3 indo-26838ee5_paddingleft7 indo-26838ee5_paddingright5 indo-26838ee5_paddingtop3 indo-b184cee3_openquote\" style=\"border-left-color:var(--color-primary-base);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:0\" data-testid=\"inline-quote\">\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_medium indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0\" style=\"color:var(--color-black-base)\">These non-typical users accounted for 23pc of over 100,000 posts, which is high<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Combing through 100,030 posts generated by 54,334 unique users across seven platforms between March 20 and March 22, the company found that 4.21pc of the activity originated from \u201cnon-typical\u201d users who behave as \u201coutlier, influencer, facilitator or hybrid types\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Gudea defines outliers as accounts that engage in unusual posting patterns, influencers as users with large followings whose content often sets trends or sparks conversations, and facilitators as accounts that post so regularly it seems \u201calmost automated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThese non-typical users accounted for 23pc of over 100,000 posts, which is high,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThe incident prompted intense personal attacks on Chappell Roan, calls for boycotts, and significant misinformation [including satirical\/fictional embellishment spreading as fact].<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cDiscourse ranged from legitimate fan criticism and debate about celebrity privacy vs fan treatment, to co-ordinated attack campaigns and considerable satirical\/humorous content that blurred the line with misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"><span\/>Celebrity bodyguard Pascal Duvier spoke out, taking \u201cfull responsibility\u201d for the incident. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.independent.ie \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roan (28) has recently faced considerable backlash over accusations made by Brazilian soccer star Jorginho that a bodyguard berated his wife, singer Catherine Harding, and stepdaughter \u2013 whom Harding shares with actor Jude Law \u2013 following an encounter with Roan. The Pink Pony Club singer has since spoken out, denying that the security guard was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2351045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[417612],"class_list":["post-2351044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Chappell-Roan-bodyguard-controversy-fuelled-by-online-bots-research-finds.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351046,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351044\/revisions\/2351046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}