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Bot Hunting Is All About the Vibes
Christopher Bouzy is trying to stay ahead of the bots. As the person behind Bot Sentinel, a popular bot-detection system,…
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The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team
I turn my attention to Dublin, where I find Fabian (not his real name), a former moderator who, until earlier…
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How Bots Corrupted Advertising | WIRED
“As a result of this elaborate scheme, the defendant falsified billions of ad views and caused businesses to pay more…
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This Student’s Side Project Will Help Decide Musk vs. Twitter
August 5 was not a normal day for Kaicheng Yang. It was the day after a US court published Elon…
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A Sprawling Bot Network Used Fake Porn to Fool Facebook
In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive…
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Not All Bots Are Bad, and Twitter Knows It
But bots don’t even need to be useful. “I don’t think bots have to do something worthwhile,” says V Buckenham,…
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