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YouTube announced a number of new improvements after being called out by big creators regarding spam comments and bots that may bring risks to their subscribers, like fake giveaways and crypto scams.

Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

Elon Musk said Saturday his planned $44 billion takeover of Twitter should move forward if the company can confirm some details about how it measures whether user accounts are 'spam bots' or real ...

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m staring at a picture of a tanned woman in a swimsuit that doesn’t quite cover her nipples. This is an unexpected twist in my quest to track down and understand the daily ...

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Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams shortly after its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, claims that the social media giant has persisting bot and security problems.

Bots have infilitrated just about every social network out there, but Zigazoo founder Zak Ringelstein is confident his company’s TikTok alternative can effectively safeguard against 100% of them. The ...

Internet users looking for information on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s arrest will find another roadblock put in their way, after attacks on major websites and censoring of text messaging services. This ...

Elon Musk has said for months that Twitter misled investors about the platform’s financial health, and that it has far more spam bots on its site than it claims. Reporter A whistleblower disclosure by ...