A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, researchers say. But with the MAGA movement split over ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old man for allegedly running one of the most powerful bot networks observed in recent years. Ethan J. Foltz from Eugene, Oregon, was arrested Aug. 6 and stands accused of operating Rapper Bot, also known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeffrey Epstein during a party at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. - Credit: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images That remarkable schism between automated X accounts ...

In early 2022, a senior employee at the Russian state news agency RT pitched his superiors on an idea: could RT create an in-house social media bot farm to reach people outside of its traditional news broadcasts? Per federal court documents released on ...