On December 14, 2025, a terrorist attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, leaving 15 civilians and one gunman ...

CATONSVILLE, MD, Oct. 23, 2025 – A peer-reviewed study in Information Systems Research shows that AI-powered social media bots can increase user engagement on posts, but they fall short of encouraging ...

Benjamin Barrier is the co-founder and chief strategy officer at DataDome, which protects businesses from cyberfraud and bot attacks in real time. Meta rang in the new year with controversy. After the ...

Two social media accounts purporting to be average Americans — Sue Williamson and Ricardo Abbot — posting Russian propaganda justifying the country's invasion of Ukraine (U.S. Department of Justice) ...

It began with just one post. Late one night, I was scrolling through my social media feed, and something caught my eye. You know that feeling when something doesn’t sit quite right, like an image in a ...

What is just a portion of the undiscovered bot farms plaguing the internet has been discovered by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and seized. The DOJ announced on Tuesday that it seized a bot farm ...

Real human friends are soon to be out-of-date in Silicon Valley. Instead, your new social media friend will be an artificial intelligence bot, according to one executive from Meta, Facebook and ...

OREM, Utah (KSL.com) — In the aftermath of last week’s fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox urged people to stay off ...

In political discussions on social media, distinguishing between human users and artificial intelligence (AI) bots has become a perplexing challenge, according to a new study. Conducted by researchers ...

John Lalor does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The information environment in Finland during the coronavirus pandemic was exceptional and intense in many ways. The spread of disinformation and the number of actors involved reached unprecedented ...