Over 170 accounts on social media have been analyzed by Graphika for a possible link between the South Dakota House of Representatives’ resolution HCR6008 and a Chinese state-linked influence ...

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 ...

Advancements in artificial intelligence could help bad actors influence the discourse in the midterm elections, former former ...

The Ohio Statehouse with the Leveque Tower and Rhode Tower behind it, both lit up in red, white and blue lighting. A new study of Ohio’s 2022 elections concluded social media bots were able to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social media bots are flooding online feeds to influence public opinion on critical issues such as the Middle East crisis and ...

United States, April 13, 2026 -- not.bot, a digital identity verification platform developed by Julia Social, has introduced a new approach to online authentication designed to ad ...

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 ...

A new study of Ohio’s 2022 elections concluded social media bots were able to influence what candidates were messaging about online, and the issue has likely only worsened with time, according to its ...

DAYTON — Social media bots are flooding online feeds to influence public opinion on critical issues such as the Middle East crisis and upcoming elections. Research indicates that even a small number ...

The fox8 bots created fake engagement with each other and with human accounts through realistic back-and-forth discussions and retweets. In this way, they tricked X’s recommendation algorithm into ...