In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

With Instagram comes the Instagram bot accounts that plague our timelines, comment sections, and more. MarketingDive even calculated that there could be as many as 95 million bot accounts on Instagram ...

Bot-like accounts remain entrenched on X, previously known as Twitter, researchers say. - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP JUSTIN SULLIVAN Bot-like accounts ...

In July last year, an attempted assassin tried to take the life of President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Within 48 hours, conspiracy theories ran rampant on social media. One of them ...

New data shows AI bots pushing deeper into the web, prompting publishers to roll out more aggressive defenses.

Viral-tweet-spawning Twitter account @ericareport has been suspended by the platform for reasons that have not been publicly disclosed. Many suspect the account, which was created in September 2022, ...

Huffman said the company will soon move to verify and tag bots, following the recent launch of verified profiles for public figures, brands, trusted partners and individuals on Reddit.

Global Witness found that 10 suspected bot profiles on X shared 'disinformation and hate' before the UK general election - Copyright AFP LOIC VENANCE Global Witness ...

The volume of internet traffic stemming from malicious automated software has increased by 2.5% since 2021 to over 30% – the highest figure since Imperva’s first Bad Bot Report in 2013. Billions of ...