There’s no good way to ask people if they think Twitter will outlive them. I don’t mean any offense to Jack Dorsey and Co., but one must ask this awkward question when trying to find out programmers’ ...

Director Mueller speaks at the FBI's 100th anniversary celebrations at the National Building Museum on July 17, 2008. (Justice Department photo) A network of more than 5,000 pro-Trump Twitter bots ...

Last July activist DeRay Mckesson and the technology co-op Feel Train, comprised of Darius Kazemi and Courtney Stanton, loosed a Twitter bot called StayWokeBot upon the world. When the bot launched it ...

Twitter engineer William Morgan is the real, live human behind the “highly experimental bot,” and yesterday it was made clear it’s not a Twitter product, but a “toy.” Morgan’s been discussing the bot ...

Almost a thousand Twitter accounts controlled by a large bot farm pushing Russian propaganda and domains used to register the bots were taken down in a joint international law enforcement operation ...

Everyone loves a good "Scorigami" -- in which a score of an NFL game that's never been put together before happens -- particularly on X (formerly Twitter). But as many fans noticed recently, the ...

Political events could be pushing up the fake bots and users on Twitter, costing advertisers millions in ad spend. Guy Tytunovich, CEO and co-founder at Cybersecurity company CHEQ, speaking from ...

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 ...

It was trained on the spookiest stories on the web, but human collaborators make its stories truly terrifying. R.I.P. @Horse_Ebooks, The Human-Run Twitter Bot That Fooled Us All @Horse_ebooks, the ...

WASHINGTON — Over the past 11 months, someone created thousands of fake, automated Twitter accounts — perhaps hundreds of thousands of them — to offer a stream of praise for Donald Trump. Besides ...