Frustrated shoppers are pulling back from e-commerce as AI bots beat humans to checkout and flood sites with scams.

Last Monday was a great day for us in the office. @ZDNet hit the 400,000 follower mark on Twitter; a joyous moment marked by me in a brief note to our senior editor who, among many things, runs the ...

It looks like X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has a Verified bot problem. Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka ...

X still has a verified bot problem. Also, grass is green. We knew it would be a bad idea to let anyone pay for a verified checkmark on the platform formerly known as Twitter, but it’s still shocking ...

For years it’s been obvious that online social services of all kinds are beset by a problem with bots. I work on a cybersecurity product that can go inline and literally watch bot traffic, and too ...

Elon Musk could soon face off against Twitter in a Delaware court over whether he should be forced to buy the social media company. Musk’s excuse for backing out? Bots. Specifically, how many bots run ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Most of us are familiar with the idea that fake and automated Twitter and Facebook accounts, many of them run ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. These automated accounts have become a headache for Twitter not only because they’re drawing Congressional scrutiny, but because they’re ...