Oh boy I’ve been holding onto this one for a while and I’m excited to finally be writing it. I’ve written before about bot scams on social media that comment on popular posts, or reply to popular ...

Many comments were profane duplicates, stemmed from bots, and some comments also contained viruses aimed to specifically target people who wanted to genuinely weigh in on the topic.

These bots are now so prevalent in the comments of popular Instagram pages that regular users are mocking the trend. Every now and then, you'll see a comment from someone who's clearly not a bot ...

Bots are posing as recruiters who love what you say in your LinkedIn feed. And LinkedIn can’t delete them fast enough.

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 ...

YouTube has announced a plan to crack down on spam and abusive content in comments and livestream chats. Of course, YouTube will be doing this with bots, which will now have the power to issue ...

did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider. Even without algorithms and humans, the same toxic patterns ...

Slack bots range from the obvious—bots for recognizing good work, posting photos, translating text—to the utterly inane, like playing poker.