In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

An external study of Twitter in 2022 estimated that between a third and two thirds of accounts on the social media site were bots. And many of these automatons flooding social media are dispatched to ...

Bier announced in March that the majority of his team was focused on building spam mitigation features, including improved ...

Julia Social, has introduced a new approach to online authentication designed to address the growing crisis of trust on the internet. As bots and AI-generated content continue to blur the line between ...

Wikipedia's human pageviews declined 8% over last year. Wikimedia Foundation attributes the trend to generative AI and social media. Bot detection was updated after unusually high traffic. Wikimedia ...

Social bots are AI software that produce content and interact with people on social media. We uncovered a network of over a thousand bots involved in crypto scams. We dubbed this the “fox8” botnet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crowds of AI bots posing as humans can influence crowds of real people on social media. J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) We were able to identify these accounts because the coders were a bit sloppy: They did ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Filippo Menczer, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) In mid-2023, around the time ...