Social media bots are fake accounts that use automated or semi-automated programming to infiltrate platforms and shape how humans behave online. Groups or individuals create social media bots for a ...

Is that hottie really just a bottie? Here are six ways you can tell the difference between real and fake accounts on Twitter. So I logged onto my favorite microblogging service a few days ago and was ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown drew plenty of headlines on Sunday when he signed the state’s net neutrality bill into a law, a move that was immediately met with a lawsuit from the Department of Justice.

The profile is the bot account, even though it may appear to look legitimate, the number of followers to following ratio skewed, there's 169 followers and 1,736 following. Also there's a large time ...

The 5 examples to spot scammers on OkCupid and Tinder will help ensure that your online dating experience is smooth and you spend more time in finding the perfect person rather than the perfect bot.

Back in 2011, a team from Texas A&M University carried out a cyber sting to trap nonhuman Twitter users that were polluting the Twittersphere with spam. Their approach was to set up “honeypot” ...