Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...

YouTube announced a number of new improvements after being called out by big creators regarding spam comments and bots that may bring risks to their subscribers, like fake giveaways and crypto scams.

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m staring at a picture of a tanned woman in a swimsuit that doesn’t quite cover her nipples. This is an unexpected twist in my quest to track down and understand the daily ...

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Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams shortly after its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, claims that the social media giant has persisting bot and security problems.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Last year, Elon Musk promised "to defeat the spam bots or die trying." So far, he doesn't appear to ...

Internet users looking for information on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s arrest will find another roadblock put in their way, after attacks on major websites and censoring of text messaging services. This ...