American political activists on the left and the right are using networks of social media followers that behave like bots to rapidly spread conspiracy theories embraced by significant segments of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s unclear who’s behind the network or which AI chatbot was used to power it. (Tilde Oyster / NBC News; Getty Images) (Tilde ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maia Sandu. Stock photo: Getty Images Matryoshka, a pro-Kremlin bot network, has launched a campaign on Twitter and BlueSky ...

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 ...

Federal prosecutors have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating a vast network of hacked devices that has been blamed for knocking Elon Musk’s X social-media site offline earlier this year.

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

The investigation, which analyzed social media activity on X during “Operation Rising Lion,” identified at least 100 fabricated accounts systematically promoting Tehran’s strategic messaging. Beyond ...

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, ...