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 ...

Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning models out of fear ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Given how effective it was at drowning out other people, I wouldn’t be surprised if a government of some kind tries to use this technique in the future." And recently, without much evidence, he ...

Eric Law is a Game Rant contributor from Pennsylvania, USA. An MMORPG-focused video game writer for Game Rant for two years and counting, Eric cut his teeth on gaming since he was a wee lad watching ...