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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are a lot of personages floating around social media sites, a disconcertingly significant number of them with no more life or substance than a discarded shell whose hermit crab tenant abandoned ...

Director Mueller speaks at the FBI's 100th anniversary celebrations at the National Building Museum on July 17, 2008. (Justice Department photo) A network of more than 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots ...

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 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 ...