"This is how people get hurt," Hope Walz, daughter of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, said during a recent TikTok video.

Elon Musk's proposed $44 billion purchase of Twitter appears to be wobbling, with the billionaire raising concerns about the number of inauthentic accounts, or bots, on the social media platform. If ...

Bots now account for nearly half of all internet traffic globally, with so-called “bad bots” responsible for a third. The proportion of internet traffic generated by bots hit its highest level last ...

Automated internet and social media sites are generating and sharing posts, often spreading information, disinformation and misinformation in hopes of influencing public opinion on behalf of some ...

Scrolling through the bot’s history of bets, it wins far more often than it loses, putting fairly large sums (routinely between $200 and $20,000) on very marginal improvements, bringing in modest wins ...

Elon Musk and X, formerly known as Twitter, said Thursday that X is beginning a purge of bots that have persisted on the platform since before Musk purchased it in 2022, the latest measure taken by ...