Starting today, everyone who is running a bot account on Twitter can add a label to make it clear the tweets are automated. The company started testing the label in September and is now rolling it out ...

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 ...

Twitch has recently been bombarded with millions of bot accounts, making live streams difficult, as there is no clear way for players to know who is a legitimate viewer and what the motives are of ...

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A class-action lawsuit filed against Spotify alleges that the streaming giant has ignored, and subsequently profited from, ...

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Nearly 20% of all Twitter active accounts are likely fake, according to a recent analysis by SparkToro and Followerwonk. It brings into ...

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They’ve been alleged to have helped shift the course of the 2016 presidential election, and are a key component of Elon Musk’s ongoing attempts to wriggle out of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

With Instagram comes the Instagram bot accounts that plague our timelines, comment sections, and more. MarketingDive even calculated that there could be as many as 95 million bot accounts on Instagram ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Amazon Games has banned over 1 million "illegitimate accounts" involved with botting from its newly released MMORPG Lost Ark, the company has ...

Bots like Ashley and friends are taking advantage of Spotify's public playlist settings. Credit: Fabian Sommer / Picture Alliance via Getty Images The latest internet villain just reared its head and ...