The record 22 million comments received by the FCC regarding the future of net neutrality has sparked considerable discussion about the impact of automated bots on the government’s ability to hear ...

Porn bots. Always the first to comment on our Instagram posts, always full of mystery, and a lot of the time, very creative with their requests. However, who (or what) has the most Louvre-worthy ...

Among the nearly 22 million public comments about net neutrality filed with the Federal Communications Commission in recent months, only 6% of them were unique comments, a Pew Research Center study ...

When the Federal Communication Commission asked the public what it thought about its net neutrality rules in 2017, the comments flooded in—including millions submitted under fake names by ...

Some mysterious bots seem to have taken a keen interest in telecommunications policy. Automated programs are thought to be responsible for more than 100,000 identical comments recently posted to the ...

The last thing I expected to find on Instagram was someone telling me not to look at their Story if I didn't want to masturbate. But that comment, which I can only assume was intended reverse ...

Before posting comments on the government’s online e-rulemaking systems, the public could soon be prompted to answer a new question: “Are you a robot?” Agency officials told lawmakers they are ...

There isn't a day when I don't come across comments from bots on Instagram. They're all over the place. But there's nothing they love more than to spam high-profile pages with millions of followers.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It has been a year since the infamous “flash crash” exposed serious flaws in the stock market. Last year on May ...