Twitch has recently been bombarded with millions of bot accounts, making live streams difficult, as there is no clear way for players to know who is a legitimate viewer and what the motives are of ...

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 ...

Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter, said Thursday that X is beginning a purge of bots that have persisted on the platform since before Musk purchased it in 2022, the latest measure taken by ...

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 ...

It’s unclear who’s behind the network or which AI chatbot was used to power it. (Tilde Oyster / NBC News; Getty Images) A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial ...

They’ve been alleged to have helped shift the course of the 2016 presidential election, and are a key component of Elon Musk’s ongoing attempts to wriggle out of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently pressed Twitter for more information on how the company identifies spam accounts, adding to scrutiny — stoked by Elon Musk — over the platform’s ...

The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed and blocked another two bot farms, which operated around 7,000 fake Facebook accounts and shared harmful content via social media. Source: Main Directorate ...

Porn bots are more or less ingrained in the social media experience, despite platforms’ best efforts to stamp them out. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing them flooding the comments sections of memes ...