Maggie Rogers thwarts ticket bots with in-person salesThe singer invites fans to “come buy an in-person ticket like it’s 1965.”By W. Shanklin, 04.06.2023
Valve is working on a major update for 'Team Fortress 2'The 'full-on update-sized update' will arrive this summer.By I. Bonifacic, 02.12.2023
Elon Musk says Twitter will offer a free API tier for 'good' botsHe's backtracking on a decision to charge all users for API access. By S. Dent, 02.06.2023
Twitter spam obscures China COVID policy protest newsThe surge in bots comes after Twitter cut thousands of jobs.By J. Fingas, 11.28.2022
The first-ever Xbox transparency report reveals a surge in bot bansMost of Microsoft's enforcement now centers around fake accounts.By J. Fingas, 11.14.2022
Recommended Reading: How Sony's AI outran the best sim racersThe week's best writing on technology and more. By B. Steele, 07.23.2022
Demand for the Justice League 'Snyder Cut' was reportedly amplified by botsA report showed that 'at least' 13 percent of online discourse was generated by bots.By S. Dent, 07.19.2022
AI trained on 4chan's most hateful board is just as toxic as you'd expectThe hyper-racist bots posted 15,000 times in one day.By J. Fingas, 06.08.2022
Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is 'temporarily on hold'He wants to confirm that spam/fake accounts 'do indeed represent less than 5 percent of users.'By S. Dent, 05.13.2022
Twitter tests a way for accounts to let people know they're botsIt's designed to help 'good bots' gain legitimacy. By S. Dent, 09.10.2021
Discord music bot Groovy is going offline after YouTube crackdownIt's shutting down on August 30th.By D. Hardawar, 08.25.2021
Twitch is purging 7.5 million bots that inflated view and follower countsThe news comes after users saw steep drops in their follow counts. By S. Dent, 04.15.2021
Valve is still letting bots invade one of its longest-running games'Team Fortress 2' has been nearly unplayable for over nine months.By J. Conditt, 03.31.2021
Social media bots may have fueled the GameStop stock frenzyJust how much of a role they played isn't clear.By J. Fingas, 02.28.2021
FTC issues first fines using a law against ticket scalping botsThe scalpers will pay over $3.7 million.By J. Fingas, 01.23.2021
Customer service chats are coming to Instagram DMsFacebook is testing Messenger API support for Instagram messages.By K. Holt, 10.19.2020
Instagram will make suspicious accounts verify their identitiesAccounts that don't comply may be disabled.By K. Bell, 08.13.2020
Valve is allowing racist bots to invade ‘Team Fortress 2’And players have had enough.By J. Conditt, 06.05.2020
Discord wants to clean up and support its massive bot communityDevelopers have got six months to get verified.By R. England, 04.08.2020