“I love bots” feels like a controversial statement now, given the rise of troll farms deploying them and the proliferation of egg accounts spreading bad information or engaging in harassment. Even if ...

As Taraschuk explains to Observer, a bot is essentially a social media account that performs particular tasks on autopilot, without the need for human control. Platforms like Twitter are full of ...

Accounts run from foreign countries like and share posts by PM and other politicians within seconds, despite the fact that videos they're sharing take minutes to actually watch The post Netanyahu, ...

It began with just one post. Late one night, I was scrolling through my social media feed, and something caught my eye. You know that feeling when something doesn’t sit quite right, like an image in a ...

The Department of Justice nabbed a social media "bot farm" run by the Russian government used to spread misinformation in the U.S. and other countries. Agency officials said in a release Tuesday that ...

In the months after Covid-19 was first identified, the World Health Organization identified another health threat. The WHO warned Silicon Valley firms of an “infodemic,” with false information ...

OREM, Utah (KSL.com) — In the aftermath of last week’s fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox urged people to stay off ...

Two social media accounts purporting to be average Americans — Sue Williamson and Ricardo Abbot — posting Russian propaganda justifying the country's invasion of Ukraine (U.S. Department of Justice) ...

CATONSVILLE, MD, Oct. 23, 2025 – A peer-reviewed study in Information Systems Research shows that AI-powered social media bots can increase user engagement on posts, but they fall short of encouraging ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...