Tag: Bots

The Twitter Bot Mother Lode is a super botnet comprised of a variety of bots that span the globe and are systematically created daily.

Which bot checkers are better? Are they worth using at all? We reviewed several bot checkers commonly used by Twitter users–by testing them.

After Twitter released thousands of IRA-linked accounts, we found a botnet nested within the data dump. A botnet with at least 1,000 still-active accounts.

We previously reported on a Twitter account housing over 60,000 Russian-English bots. Since Twitter hasn’t suspended the account, we’ve tracked its network.

It’s well documented that Trump’s Twitter account is rife with fake followers.Those fake followers swell Trump’s account and inflate his interactions.

A step-by-step walk-through of how to spot a bot–tools to analyze a twitter account.

On September 29, 2019, Trump tweeted about Civil War. We took a look at how the bots in Trump’s account added significantly to the problem.

The Elsa Darner Twitter troll-bots were posted and mass reported in June 2018. Not only were they not suspended, there are more of them now.

Twitter ignored 20 million Russian bots. Will they ignore 40 million?

In a six-month project, we found millions of Russian bots on Twitter—and this is just the start.

A Twitter botnet pushed messaging in support of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court—making it appear as if he had more support than he did.

How an army of Twitter bots participated in opposition rhetoric toward Al Franken.

The Jane Austen Twitter Bots is a group of Twitter bots that regularly tweet phrases from Jane Austen literature. But these accounts are far from harmless.

We discovered hundreds of related and similarly automated Twitter accounts with tentacles deep into Twitter’s users. One so massive that we gave it a name. The Reffy Botnet.

This new Twitter botnet is different from those that have previously been identified. It’s currently tweeting anti-Trump propaganda.

Why is Twitter allowing fake North Carolina state and county Twitter accounts to spread alt-right disinformation?

Part III: We dig further into the 250+ Trump Organization sub-domains communicating with Russia to see if it’s possible to attribute them to Shadowgate.

With fake social media accounts at the heart of the cyber-war against us, why haven’t we stopped them?

Here’s how just one person can run dozens of fake, extremist accounts on many social media platforms.

As with previous military actions in the age of Social Media, Turkey’s assault on US Allies in Syria is being boosted on Twitter.