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 ...

Internet bots have many useful online purposes, but they have a dark side, too, as three researchers demonstrated in their analysis of Twitter traffic during the first presidential debate between ...

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 ...

Earlier in August, it was reported that 8.5 percent of Twitter users, or 23 million accounts, were not actually people but bots, autonomous accounts that post without any human interaction. Twitter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...