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 ...

Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the machines. For the past year, Don Marti has been ...

Happy Monday. My name is David Meyer and I'm going to be regularly writing the Data Sheet lead essay, so, pleased to meet you. A bit about me: I'm a South African who's lived in Berlin for 11 years ...

People holding mobile phones are silhouetted against a backdrop projected with the Twitter logo in this illustration picture taken on Sept. 27, 2013. Reuters Are some of the most-followed accounts on ...

Rampant bot activity on Twitter helped pump the price of FTX-listed and Alameda Research-traded cryptocurrency, a new study found. Researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute also found ...

In light of Microsoft’s recent ill-fated attempt at creating a teen girl chatbot, I found myself wondering how often these programs pass themselves off as real people. I reached out to a user ...

X, formerly Twitter, will begin charging new users in New Zealand and the Philippines $1 annually as part of what the company called an anti-bot program. The idea of a paid subscription model was ...

Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow ...

As a game designer, Greg Borenstein’s work explores machine learning, computer vision, drawing, and generative storytelling. With Uncanny X-Bot, he created a Twitter bot that generates plot summaries ...

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 ...