Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system, he and his team continuously update their machine learning models out of fear ...

They’ve been alleged to have helped shift the course of the 2016 presidential election, and are a key component of Elon Musk’s ongoing attempts to wriggle out of his $44 billion purchase of Twitter.

Dozens of popular Twitter bots are losing API access after Elon Musk said there would be exceptions for "good" automated accounts. Credit: Mashable / Bob Al-Greene Another day, another Twitter ...

Moore's Law Is Dead says Sony may be using dormant accounts and AI-generated profile photos to defend its physical disc ...

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 ...

Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...

X, formerly known as Twitter, is testing a subscription plan called “Not a Bot” of US$1 equivalent per annum in New Zealand and the Philippines. Those who don’t subscribe will still be able to log in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Birch is a London-based advisor on digital financial services. Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong made an interesting comment ...

Twitch has recently been bombarded with millions of bot accounts, making live streams difficult, as there is no clear way for players to know who is a legitimate viewer and what the motives are of ...

While humans built the internet, actual people aren’t the ones roaming the online space the most. A new report from Thales says bots accounted for more than 53% of all web traffic in 2025, up from 51% ...