A young woman who is battling against social media giants took the stand Thursday to testify about her experience using the platforms as she was growing up, saying she was on social media "all day ...

An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. “No bot detection. No selector maintenance. No Cloudflare ...

When we think about IT outsourcing, it has moved far beyond cost arbitrage. For many global executives, the real challenge today is not the cost of outsourcing, but how to build offshore engineering ...

Abstract: Identifying social bots has become a critical challenge due to their significant influence on social media ecosystems. Despite advancements in detection methods, most topology-based ...

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(BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA) In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of ...

Synthetic consensus In a study my colleagues and I conducted last year, we used a social media model to simulate swarms of inauthentic social media accounts using different tactics to influence a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) We were able to identify these accounts because the coders were a bit sloppy: They did ...

A new website called Moltbook has become the talk of Silicon Valley and a Rorschach test for belief in the state of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco Last Wednesday, ...