CHICO — Oh boy I’ve been holding onto this one for a while and I’m excited to finally be writing it. I’ve written before about bot scams on social media that comment on popular posts, or reply to ...

We thought it was pretty obvious, but a lot of folks in the responses to the tweets’ replies are asking if the bot is real (you know who you are). So, here we are to kill the joke. Most of these posts ...

Twitter even suspended another automated bot called @AskTheWassie, a comic frog that operated similarly to @ExplainThisBob on Sunday. “Promotion of scams under the guise of being a funny/helpful bot ...