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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The billionaire's latest plan to drum up funds and battle bots on Twitter would've spelled doom for multiple, well-loved automated accounts on the platform. Reading time: Reading time 2 minutes In a ...

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 ...

Some of them share traffic violations or simple photos of every NYC address. Others track secret payments or Wikipedia edits made by the NYPD. Perhaps the most important among them tells New Yorkers ...

Researchers have uncovered a massive bot farm on Twitter dedicated to boosting former President Donald Trump as he gears up for the 2024 campaign. The network of bots has spent the better part of a ...

I personally thought the big Twitter drama of the week was going to be the company’s move to replace its long-delayed free API tier with a “paid basic tier” — but then, Twitter decided to pick a major ...

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 ...