Elon Musk's proposed $44 billion purchase of Twitter appears to be wobbling, with the billionaire raising concerns about the number of inauthentic accounts, or bots, on the social media platform. If ...

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 ...

A class-action lawsuit filed against Spotify alleges that the streaming giant has ignored, and subsequently profited from, ...

As AI-orchestrated bot attacks take a heavy toll on their targets, Australian businesses need the capability to thwart bot ...

The third person just charged in connection with the Dearborn terror plot was also sued earlier this month for allegedly using bots on Fortnite to steal thousands of dollars, officials said.

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Filippo Menczer receives funding from Knight Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Open Technology Fund, and DoD. He owns a Tesla. Kai-Cheng Yang does not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

The makers of Fortnite have filed a federal lawsuit against two Dearborn men, claiming the two used thousands of fake "bot" ...