Large-scale bot operations targeted critical voices in Serbia and North Macedonia, attempting to trigger platform shutdowns ...

Instagram has fewer fake comments today after the company shut down Instagress, an automated Instagram bot, by request earlier this week. Liking and commenting on other images is a popular way to both ...

With Instagram comes the Instagram bot accounts that plague our timelines, comment sections, and more. MarketingDive even calculated that there could be as many as 95 million bot accounts on Instagram ...

IRANIAN women’s rights groups have for months faced a deluge of bots following their Instagram accounts and disrupting their digital outreach operations. Activists say that while they have repeatedly ...

A Manhattan data scientist is turning the social media influencer world on its head by revealing that he created a bot that not only runs a successful Manhattan-themed Instagram account on its own, ...

Bots, bots, everywhere, but nothing good to click. As the social media networks of the world engage in a performative struggle to become good for people's well being, they have been simultaneously ...

All websites have problems with spam. Many of the large clients I work with have spammers hitting them daily. This is no different for the mammoth players like Instagram. If you’re unfamiliar with ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Facebook has sued a ...