If Elon Musk has had a mantra since his takeover of Twitter and attempted rebrand to “X,” it’s “freedom of speech.” But a close second has been “fighting the bots,” a refrain he uses to justify almost ...

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Elon Musk, owner of X, formerly Twitter, is considering imposing a monthly fee on users of the social network to combat bots, accounts that incessantly generate content. The suggestion was raised ...

Bot-like accounts on social media platform X that spread misinformation and hate ahead of Britain's election are now amplifying conspiracy theories around US politics, a watchdog investigation ...

For many users, scrolling through social media feeds and notifications is like wading in a cesspool of spam content. A new study identified 1,140 AI-assisted bots that were spreading misinformation on ...

Elon Musk took over Twitter promising to rid the platform of what he described as its biggest problem: bots. In his characteristic fashion, he not only failed to make good on his word, but the paid ...

Elon Musk has promised to clean up Twitter by showing the world why it boosts some tweets above others and purging it of automated accounts that noisily promote get-rich-quick schemes, products and ...

In July last year, an attempted assassin tried to take the life of President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania. Within 48 hours, conspiracy theories ran rampant on social media. One of them ...

A new study has estimated that as many as 48 million of Twitter’s users are fake accounts known as “bots.” Richard Drew AP In February, Twitter announced it had 319 million monthly active users ...