Is the Twitter account @ElonMusk a bot? One of the best algorithms for detecting fake accounts thinks it might be, which shows how challenging it is to quantify the proportion of fake accounts across ...

How many bots are on the Internet, and why should we care? This is an argument I've been making since the late 1990s, and it is high time I got it in writing outside of closed circles.Ever since ...

Twitter whistleblower Pieter Zatko said that "deliberate ignorance was the norm" on the issue of spam bots among the social network's executive team. Reading time 3 minutes There’s a new twist in As ...

Tesla's Elon Musk suggests deal to buy Twitter could go ahead at original terms if the latter's bot count is accurate. Musk shifts the onus of proving that Twitter's bot account count is accurate to ...