A network of 13,000 Twitter bots posted 65,000 Brexit messages in the month before last year’s EU referendum – only to vanish shortly afterwards. New research has revealed that an additional 26,000 ...

To a smart attacker, Twitter and other social networks are veritable cornucopias of personal information being broadcast for the world to see. Scammers are already employing them for so-called "open ...

Zendesk Message works with Facebook's Messenger platform allowing companies to combine automated responses and human conversations. Many common online enquiries can be handled efficiently by bots, but ...

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A study of millions of tweets finds Twitter users rarely see or retweet vaccine misinformation generated by bots Twitter users rarely see or retweet anti-vaccination content generated by bots, a study ...

Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’ The social media conversation over the climate crisis is being reshaped by an army ...

Meta is testing a new AI feature that lets its chatbots send messages to users without being prompted. This marks a major shift in how artificial intelligence tools interact with users across Meta’s ...

Almost half of Twitter accounts posting misinformation about coronavirus are likely to be automated bots, research has found. More than 200 million tweets about Covid-19 since January were analysed by ...

Simply sign up to the Technology sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Politicians and activists are increasingly using dating apps to target young voters, in a new twist on the ...