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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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Elon Musk is backing Trump. Is Musk's Twitter backing Trump, too?
Twitter seems to be favoring conservatives. There are at least two theories to explain that.
Peter Kafka
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Fight against bots? Musk says new users on X will soon have to pay $1 to create an account
Elon Musk in a live-stream has mentioned that X (formerly Twitter) is moving towards becoming a pai…
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A college student who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says his Threads accounts have been suspended
Meta cited privacy policy violations and potential physical harm as reasons for suspending the acco…
Beatrice Nolan
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Meta banned accounts tracking Musk and Trump's private jets. The student behind them says he's lost faith in big social media platforms.
Jack Sweeney first made headlines in 2022 when Musk suspended the jet-tracking accounts from X — no…
Beatrice Nolan
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Twitter employees monitored Elon Musk's jet-tracking account to see when he'd be in the office
Twitter employees monitored Elon Musk's jets via a social-media account to anticipate when their bo…
Grace Kay
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Twitter 2.0 is an empty promise unless it exterminates the bots
Twitter CEO Yaccarino wants to turn Twitter into the "world's most accurate real-time information s…
Hasan Chowdhury
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A small number of ‘superspreaders’ are propagating most of the misinformation on Twitter, study finds
Building on our understanding on the spread of misinformation on social media, a team of analysts a…
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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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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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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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Twitter is taking 'extreme measures' to tackle its bot problem. It should verify everyone instead.
The social-media firm said it needed to take "extreme measures" of limiting the number of tweets it…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Elon Musk will either pay far less for Twitter or use fake accounts as an excuse to walk away, experts say
Musk said last week that if 25% of users were bots, the deal for Twitter should cost 25% less. Expe…
Ryan Hogg
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More than 23% of Elon Musk's Twitter followers are spam or fake accounts, research groups say
The analysis was based on a system of 17 warning signals that point to an account being suspicious,…
Matthew Loh
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Tesla's Optimus bot is looking a little steadier on its feet. Maybe the yoga stretches are paying off.
In a new clip, the humanoid robot demonstrated its upgraded walking ability, resulting in smoother …
Alexandra Bacon
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Elon Musk tried to get rid of Twitter bots by blocking hundreds of thousands of accounts, but accidentally impacted many legitimate users
The main telecom providers in India and Russia were all blocked from Twitter before employees rever…
Pete Syme
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Elon Musk says $44 billion Twitter deal can't proceed until CEO proves the platform has fewer than 5% fake accounts
"My offer was based on Twitter's SEC filings being accurate," Musk tweeted Tuesday, again taking is…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk blames 'spam/scam bot' for some pictures on X being labeled 'graphic content'
X said numerous posts were "incorrectly labeled" as "sensitive media," which Elon Musk blamed on a …
Tom Carter
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Twitter, Elon Musk, and the 'pleasant, unassuming' Delaware judge who may force him to pay tens of billions of dollars
Kathaleen McCormick is not likely to side with the world's richest man in his Twitter battle, Colum…
Ryan Hogg,Sam Tabahriti
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JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says 'very smart' Elon Musk should 'clean up Twitter' and remove bot accounts
Jamie Dimon expressed concerns about the number of spam accounts on Twitter – an issue which has pl…