Forget crypto spam accounts, Twitter's got another problem which involves bots and accounts promoting adult content and infiltrating Direct Messages and interactions on the platform. And there doesn't ...

A new report out today from SentinelLabs, the research arm of cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., details a recently discovered artificial intelligence-powered spam tool that automates large-scale ...

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Recently, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri shared that the Threads app would need to implement stricter rate limits [which limits how many posts a user can view] due to growing attacks from spam ...

Soloway was indicted Wednesday in Seattle on 35 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering in connection with advertising and sales of his company's "broadcast ...

Reddit has made it clear that it’s an ad-first business. Today, it expanded on that practice with a new ad format that aims to sell things to Reddit users. Simultaneously, Reddit has marketers who are ...

Elon Musk’s latest move on X (formerly Twitter) to address spam bots is introducing a “Verified-User-Only Post Replies” option, now live on the platform. What Happened: Musk’s apparent battle against ...

Even before Elon Musk lit a match under a pile of money and agreed to buy Twitter for $54.20 per share last April, he was talking a lot about bots. “If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter alternative, Instagram Threads, has been forced to implement rate limits in response to a growing number of reports citing spam attacks and crypto-shilling bots. Instagram ...

Twitter says it is taking new steps to cripple spam bots on its platform. Automated accounts and automated tweeting is allowed on Twitter generally — they’re how companies keep their feeds going at ...

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