Twitter’s meltdown may be for most of us merely funny or a mild inconvenience, yet for some, it’s terrifying and stressful how tools necessary to stay connected to already hard-fought-for communities ...

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 ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

Twitter has finally confirmed some of the details and pricing for the new version of its API. The company had previously delayed the changes after confirming that it was banning third-party clients as ...

A new paper suggests that the field of bot detection is based on a flawed premise due to poor-quality original data. The research, presented this week at the Web Conference (where it was awarded best ...

Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

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 ...

I personally thought the big Twitter drama of the week was going to be the company’s move to replace its long-delayed free API tier with a “paid basic tier” — but then, Twitter decided to pick a major ...