Social agents increasingly operate across text, images, audio, and video, enabling richer interaction and more convincing ...

The Department of Justice nabbed a social media "bot farm" run by the Russian government used to spread misinformation in the U.S. and other countries. Agency officials said in a release Tuesday that ...

CATONSVILLE, MD, Oct. 23, 2025 – A peer-reviewed study in Information Systems Research shows that AI-powered social media bots can increase user engagement on posts, but they fall short of encouraging ...

As Taraschuk explains to Observer, a bot is essentially a social media account that performs particular tasks on autopilot, without the need for human control. Platforms like Twitter are full of ...

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...

“I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in harassment. Even if ...

Two social media accounts purporting to be average Americans — Sue Williamson and Ricardo Abbot — posting Russian propaganda justifying the country's invasion of Ukraine (U.S. Department of Justice) ...

For many users, scrolling through social media feeds and notifications is like wading in a cesspool of spam content. A new study identified 1,140 AI-assisted bots that were spreading misinformation on ...

On December 9th, Rolling Stone published a story that some saw as a bombshell: a network of coordinated, “inauthentic” social ...

Benjamin Barrier is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at DataDome, which protects businesses from cyberfraud and bot attacks in real time. Meta rang in the new year with controversy. After the ...

A new site that tracks the daily fluctuating costs behind building a bot army on over 500 social media and commercial ...

In the months after Covid-19 was first identified, the World Health Organization identified another health threat. The WHO warned Silicon Valley firms of an “infodemic,” with false information ...