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Twitter wants good bots to self-identify with labels
The company started testing the label in September and is now rolling it out globally. Some…
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Even high school interns were able to use common AI tools to bypass security and launch bots on X, Facebook and other social media: report
Social media platforms like X and Facebook are facing increasing scrutiny over their ineffective bo…
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Twitter is shutting down bot accounts posting pro-Saudi tweets about missing dissident Khashoggi
Bots are automated accounts that are used by spammers, hackers and other miscreants to launch coord…
Paige Leskin
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Trump has quoted Twitter bots 150 times, according to this analysis of his tweets
It is not clear why these accounts exist. The bots make it appear that Trump's support on Twitter i…
Jim Edwards
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Elon Musk has threatened to nix the Twitter deal over too many bots on the platform. Here's why Musk is so fixated on fake accounts — and why they're so tricky to measure.
For most of us, Twitter bots may seem like just another online pest. But for Elon Musk, they might …
Avery Hartmans
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In the midst of its battle with Elon Musk, Twitter threatens to revoke Bot Sentinel's data access after founder suggests Twitter has more than 5% 'bots'
Bot Sentinel has for years used Twitter's API to publicly track accounts that are potentially harmf…
Kali Hays
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Elon Musk has warned that 'advanced AI' could poison social media
Musk himself is frequently impersonated by bots on Twitter. At time of writing the top comment whic…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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New X users will need to pay for posting: Elon Musk
In a dampener for new X users, Elon Musk has announced they may be charged for posting content on t…
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Some prominent conservatives and white supremacists are blaming Twitter's bot crackdown for wiping out thousands of their followers
The suspected purge comes a day after Vanity Fair published a story in which former Twitter employe…
Rachel Sandler
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Twitter said only 1% of accounts in a massive pro-Brexit bot network were registered in Russia
In its letter to the MP leading an investigation into Russian interference in Brexit, Damian Collin…
Shona Ghosh
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Discord banned accounts related to a site that sold messages from more than 620 million users
Discord banned several accounts linked to Spy.Pet, a site that was selling millions of user's messa…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Bots spammed millions of posts on Twitter promoting vaping. Now, Congress is investigating whether vape companies like Juul were behind it.
"I am concerned that [vaping] products, like JUUL, are continuing to be disseminated, marketed, and…
Aaron Holmes
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Twitter bots appear to be be in line with the company's estimate of below 5% — but you wouldn't know it from how much they tweet, researchers say
A new study from Similarweb supports Twitter's claim that bots comprise less than 5% of accounts on…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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Twitter says Elon Musk admitted he didn't read a summary it sent him of how it samples bots
The issue of whether Elon Musk's concerns around bot numbers were legitimate is a key element in th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Top cybersecurity expert claims that more than 80 percent of Twitter accounts are probably bots
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday went after Parag Agrawal-led platform once again, after …
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We're reading: How Facebook's AI 'Shrimp Jesus' is creating a zombie internet
Bizzarro AI images have turned parts of Facebook into a sometimes strange place, 404 Media reports.…
Katie Notopoulos
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Hackers are stealing two-factor authentication codes by using voice bots that sound authentic
The hackers can either login or make money transfers or perform other sensitive functions by us…
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Roughly half of the Twitter accounts pushing to 'reopen America' are bots, researchers found
It's not yet clear who's behind the surge in bot activity, or whether they're originating from the …
Aaron Holmes
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Elon Musk said repricing his Twitter deal for less is 'not out of the question,' according to report
Elon Musk reportedly said it was not "out of the question" that he might try to pay less to acquire…
Gabrielle Bienasz
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This Guy Has Made An Algorithm That Surfaces The Most 'Hidden' Tweets On Twitter
"In general, the bot comes from my interest in the idea of the 'slow web,' of finding strategies to…