Two-Thirds of Links on Twitter are Done by Bots

Call it the attack of the bots.  The majority of tweets linking to the most popular websites are not handled by human beings, but bots that post content without human involvement.  That’s the findings of a Pew Research Center random sampling of 1.2 million tweets last year to answer this question: “What proportion of tweeted

Report: Fake Accounts and Bots are Proliferating Online; Social Media Companies Aren’t Stopping Them

Let’s say you were able to positively identify more than 15,000 fake social media accounts.  You reported a significant number of them to social media platforms as fake.  Nearly a month later, who many do you think would still be on the platform? If you said 95% of the fake accounts were remaining online, you’d

How Much of the Internet is Fake?

Seriously.  If you haven’t read Max Reed’s article “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually” yet, stop what you’re doing and do it right now. Here are just a few of the gems Reed lays out: How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year