Federal prosecutors ripped down hundreds of artificial intelligence-generated phony social media accounts used by Russian operatives to create a "bot farm" that spread lies and pro-Vladimir Putin ...

Meta aims to largely automate moderation on Facebook and Instagram by the end of 2026. LLMs are intended to replace human reviewers and increase efficiency. Meta aims to largely automate content ...

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance ...

"Welp, that happened faster than I predicted." That's what Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince had to say as his company released data finding that there's now more traffic from bots than humans on the ...

Moderators of the popular online platform Reddit have issued a firm directive to users: do not send direct messages (DMs) or chat requests to individual moderators. Instead, they want all ...

When Brett Levenson left Apple in 2019 to lead business integrity at Facebook, the social media giant was in the thick of the Cambridge Analytica fallout. At the time, he thought he could simply fix ...

Reddit has grown into a complex ecosystem where users compete for attention, credibility, and influence. At the center of this system are power users who understand how to navigate Reddit karma ...

If you have ever played Roblox, you know how wild and unpredictable the platform can get. Now, Roblox is using that same unpredictability as a reason to overhaul how it moderates content. The platform ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China. When he first noticed the traffic spike, Quintero ...

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) details emerging risks to democratic participation on ...

Every election cycle, Washington convinces itself that this will be the moment voters finally come home. Republicans think frustrated Americans will sprint back to the GOP once Democrats take a stance ...