The link the bots are pushing directs to a channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, which hosts a bustling underground market for drugs and firearms. This particular channel has an ...

When Elon Musk took over Twitter, he said getting rid of spam bots was a priority. But data seen by the WSJ suggests he hasn't made much progress so far. As part of this war on bots, Musk says you'll ...

A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best ...

Pequeño is a breaking news reporter who covers tech and more. Bot accounts and tweets from Twitter owner Elon Musk amplified the prices of FTX-listed cryptocurrencies, according to a Network Contagion ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

Dozens of popular Twitter bots are losing API access after Elon Musk said there would be exceptions for "good" automated accounts. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Another day, another Twitter ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

Time to put your money where your mouth is. As Women's History Month begins, a Twitter account is calling out British businesses for pay discrepancies between male and female workers. The automated ...

There are a lot of personages floating around social media sites, a disconcertingly significant number of them with no more life or substance than a discarded shell whose hermit crab tenant abandoned ...

Twitter still has a massive bot problem. That threatens new CEO Linda Yaccarino's plan to turn the site into an accurate, real-time source of information. Attempts to improve the quality of Twitter, ...

An online tool developed last year by the NGO Global Witness aims to monitor and expose deforestation linked to the indirect supply chain of Brazilian meat company JBS. Brazil Big Beef Watch, a ...

More unusually, some of these bots are only responsive to tweets that contain the n-word, indicating that they seek out potential buyers through a crude form of racial profiling. The context in which ...