Porn bots. Always the first to comment on our Instagram posts, always full of mystery, and a lot of the time, very creative with their requests. However, who (or what) has the most Louvre-worthy ...

When the Federal Communication Commission asked the public what it thought about its net neutrality rules in 2017, the comments flooded in—including millions submitted under fake names by ...

Some mysterious bots seem to have taken a keen interest in telecommunications policy. Automated programs are thought to be responsible for more than 100,000 identical comments recently posted to the ...

It started out as a bit of a joke. In June 2018, a user on a now-banned subreddit made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion about creating a bot—an automated account that could call out racists by going ...

Before posting comments on the government’s online e-rulemaking systems, the public could soon be prompted to answer a new question: “Are you a robot?” Agency officials told lawmakers they are ...

Some of YouTube’s biggest creators have drawn attention to comment spam on the platform, and now the platform will notify users when a comment is removed and apply a 24-hour ban for ‘multiple abusive ...