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Unmasking the Dead Internet: How bots and propaganda hijacked online discourse

The internet is not the place we once knew. Every week, millions of people argue with AI bot networks and paid workers at troll farms like the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization based in ...
Gizmodo

Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...
Wired

‘Scraper’ Bots and the Secret Internet Arms Race

Companies are waging an invisible data war online. And your phone might be an unwitting soldier. Retailers from Amazon and Walmart to tiny startups want to know what their competitors charge. Brick ...
Government Technology

Governments, Take Note: Bad Internet Bots Are on the Rise

A new report from IT security company Imperva indicates that COVID-19 helped give birth to a historic amount of nonhuman activity on the Internet. The report is based on global customer data from the ...
Digital Journal

Heavy traffic: Beware the rise of the Internet bot

Investors have been spooked by the arrival of DeepSeek's chatbot, sparking a rout in high-flying tech titans - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER Investors have been spooked by ...
The Next Web

Bots drove nearly 40% of internet traffic last year — and the naughty ones are getting smarter

Distil Networks today published its 2019 Bad Bot Report, which looks at the current state of automated web traffic, both good and bad. The paper highlights some startling figures, including that bots ...