In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

Earlier in August, it was reported that 8.5 percent of Twitter users, or 23 million accounts, were not actually people but bots, autonomous accounts that post without any human interaction. Twitter ...

Hundreds of AI-enhanced Russian bots posing as Americans and spreading false claims in support of the Kremlin’s line on Ukraine were recently identified on X, formerly known as Twitter, the Justice ...

With the aid of open-source tools, Internet researcher Lawrence Alexander gathered and visualised data on nearly 20,500 pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts, revealing the massive scale of information ...

A new study has estimated that as many as 48 million of Twitter’s users are fake accounts known as “bots.” Richard Drew AP In February, Twitter announced it had 319 million monthly active users ...

Bot-like accounts remain entrenched on X, previously known as Twitter, researchers say. - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP JUSTIN SULLIVAN Bot-like accounts ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Elon Musk is on a crusade to rid X, the social media formally known as Twitter, of bots. On Thursday, the platform’s Safety account ...

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 ...