Bot Networks Are Helping Drag Consumer Brands Into the Culture Wars

Coordinated attacks targeting corporations have grown much more common over the past year or two, with bot networks going ...
Yahoo

It sure looks like X (Twitter) has a Verified bot problem

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 ...
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X will let AI bots fact-check posts. It isn’t as crazy as it sounds.

Happy Thursday and happy Fourth of July weekend. Send news tips to: [email protected] X will let AI bots fact-check posts. It isn’t as crazy as it sounds. The social media company that ...
Yahoo

X is letting AI bots write fact-checks — here’s why it could backfire

Elon Musk’s social media platform X is taking initiative when it comes to fighting misinformation: it’s giving artificial intelligence the power to write Community Notes; those are the fact-checking ...
Forbes

Russia Impersonated Americans Using Nearly 1,000 Fake AI-Generated X Accounts, Feds Allege

Hundreds of AI-enhanced Russian bots posing as Americans and spreading false claims in support of the Kremlin’s line on Ukraine were recently identified on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Justice ...
Android Authority

X, formerly Twitter, announces $1/year Not-a-Bot plan for new users

X is starting to charge new users a fee of $1 to post on the platform. The new Not-a-Bot subscription is first going live in New Zealand and the Philippines. Existing X users won’t be affected by the ...
The National Law Review

Sticker Mule’s Suite of Bots Take Over X as Acquisition Proves Successful

AMSTERDAM, N.Y., March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sticker Mule, the Internet’s hottest printing company, has launched a suite of automated X bots. The bots help users print, frame, and edit images ...
Searchenginejournal.com

X Is Testing a $1 Paid Subscription To Reduce Spam

X (Formerly Twitter) announced that are testing a new program (called Not A Bot) for blocking bots and spammers that requires new users to pay a subscription of $1/year in order to post or interact ...
SiliconANGLE

Prosecutors charge Rapper Bot administrator after targeting X and thousands more

U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man for allegedly running one of the most powerful bot networks observed in recent years. Ethan J. Foltz from Eugene, Oregon, was arrested Aug. 6 and stands ...
The Conversation

X/Twitter: imposing a US$1 bot tax on new customers will only make the platform’s problems worse

Hamza Mudassir does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Did something feel…off about the whole Cracker Barrel debacle to you? Did you, in the midst of the endless stream of outrage ...
SiliconANGLE

X starts testing Not A Bot, a subscription model that will charge users $1 a year

New users to X Corp. in New Zealand and the Philippines will to have to pony up $1 a year for the privilege of using the platform previously known as Twitter. In what is being called the “Not A Bot” ...