- Twitter Curbs Bots Critical of Khashoggi
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, October 19, 2018
Twitter has suspended a network of bots suspected of promoting pro-Saudi Arab ...
- 60% Of Marketers Aren't Confident Working With Influencers, Tips On Spotting A Fake
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, October 17, 2018
ISBA is telling its members to look at business metrics, more th ...
- Users Wary Of Bots, But Businesses Utilize Them In Customer Communications
Social Media Insider, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Messenger is awash in the automated software applications. More than 200,000 bo ...
- Most Americans Aware Of Bots, Deem Them Appropriate For Marketing
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, October 15, 2018
Two-thirds of Americans say they are aware of social media bots, wi ...
- Bot Malware Attacks Rise, As Search Engines Blacklist Fewer Sites
Data & Programmatic Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 8, 2018
The rate at which search engines blacklist infected websites continues to declin ...
- Amazon's Army Of Human Bots Use Twitter To Defend Work Ethics
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, August 24, 2018
Amazon's warehouse FC Ambassadors tweet back at criticism of working conditions ...
- Russian Trolls Spread False Health Info On Twitter
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, August 24, 2018
Using tactics similar to those deployed during the 2016 U.S. presidential electio ...
- Protecting Advertisers, Publishers From Bot Clicks In Campaigns
Publishing Insider, Sara Guaglione - Friday, July 6, 2018
Many publishers and advertisers alike cite ad fraud as a big probl ...
- Is That A Bot In Your Twitter Feed, Or Are You Just Glad To See Porn?
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Monday, April 9, 2018
Two-thirds of all traffic to websites linked from a tweet emanates fr ...
- Addendum: 'Filtered Bot Traffic' Defined
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Friday, March 16, 2018
Readers commented they did not understand what the definition of "filtered b ...
- Video Ad Fraud Plummets, Ad Tech 'Vigilance' Cited
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Thursday, March 15, 2018
Ad fraud -- or "filtered bot traffic" -- has declined 31% ...
- MIT Researchers: 'Lies Spread Faster Than Truth'
Research Intelligencer, Joe Mandese - Sunday, March 11, 2018
To understand how false news -- especially "fake" political news -- spread ...
- ZeroBounce Takes On Facebook In Pro-Email Announcement
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, March 9, 2018
Is ZeroBounce really ready to battle Facebook? It pointed to Facebook's declini ...
- Transparency: Make It Your Problem Before Someone Does It For You
Media Insider, Cory Treffiletti - Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Transparency is a big word for an important idea, but I'm curio ...
- BBC Testing Customizable Bots In Stories
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Sunday, February 25, 2018
The BBC is apparently testing a new chatbot tool with which reporte ...
- How 'Computational Propaganda' Is Warping American Hearts & Mind
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, February 5, 2018
Politico explains how Twitter bots and Trump followers turned #ReleaseTheMemo into ...
- New York AG Investigating Follower Factory Devumi
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Monday, January 29, 2018
New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into follow ...
- Gamut Data Reveals Characteristics Of Fraudulent Ad Impressions
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, December 22, 2017
Cox Media Group's Gamut division on Friday released data that analyzes t ...
- Attorneys General Urge FCC To Delay Net Neutrality Repeal
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 13, 2017
"If the well of public comment has been poisoned by falsified submission ...
- Russian Fake News Brexit Row Is Sour Grapes -- What About Boris' Battle Bus?
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Thursday, December 14, 2017
A row has erupted over Facebook and Russian interference, but what abo ...
- AppNexus Classifies 'Fake News,' 'Viral Content' As Vectors For Ad Fraud
Digital News Daily, Joe Mandese - Thursday, December 7, 2017
Nefarious interests ranging from criminal fraudsters, purveyors of malware and even state-sponsor ...
- Microsoft Teams With Law Enforcement To Disrupt Andromeda
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Microsoft security researchers, law enforcement agencies and Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit (DC ...
- Kia Bot 'Kian' Helps Customers Learn About Vehicles
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Monday, December 4, 2017
Kian's sophisticated natural language processing ability also allows shoppers to ask specif ...
- Facebook Testing Face ID Captcha
Around the Net In Digital, Gavin O'Malley - Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Facebook is reportedly testing a new kind of captcha to verify wheth ...
- Another Large Scale Video Ad Bot Network Exposed
Publishing Insider, Erik Sass - Friday, November 24, 2017
The "Hyphbot" network was discovered in August. The criminals behind the b ...
- Ad Fraud In 2018 - Expect Bots, Blockchain And Ads.txt
MediaDailyNews, Asaf Greiner - Wednesday, November 15, 2017
With bots multiplying and fraudsters becoming increasingly sophisticated, it's becoming harder ...
- Forensiq Exposes New Sports Bot, Releases Machine-Learning Algorithm To Detect Fraud
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 19, 2017
Companies providing ads to publishers will be able to detect suspicious sourc ...
- Fake Content To Outpace AI's Ability To Detect It By 2020
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, October 5, 2017
Gartner predicts that AI-driven creation of fake content will outpace the abili ...
- LinkedIn Takes Fight With HiQ Over Scraping To Appellate Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 5, 2017
Social networking service LinkedIn is asking appellate judges to lift an ord ...
- Twitter Addresses Presence Of Russian Bots
Digital News Daily, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, September 29, 2017
Twitter said it sold ads for accounts connected to RT (Russia Today ...