Scott Baird is a contributor with over a decade's experience writing about video games, along with board games and tabletop RPGs. Scott has previously worked for Dexerto, Cracked, Dorkly, and Gamepur.

Bot networks are now a brand problem, too. Coordinated webs of fake social-media personas have historically been the domain of fraudsters and state-based actors, such as the infamous Russian troll ...

PRISTINA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - A new minister in Albania charged to handle public procurement will be impervious to bribes, threats, or attempts to curry favour. That is because Diella, as she is ...

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization ...

When fans spent years creating a free multiplayer mod to bring back classic Modern Warfare 2 gameplay in the remastered engine, Activision shut it down at the last second. In this video, we walk ...

It’s no secret that social media has devolved into a toxic cesspool of disinformation and hate speech. Without any meaningful pressure to come up with effective guardrails and enforceable policies, ...

A previously unreported network of hundreds of accounts on X is using artificial intelligence to automatically reply to conservatives with positive messages about people in the Trump administration, ...

Plus: the US Senate has killed an AI regulation proposal This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Before we embark on our usual programming we’re thrilled to ...

The bots are here to stay, and they're everywhere. The trouble is, learning how to spot them. On this week's episode of Endless Thread, Ben and Amory discuss two stories from Reddit about undercover ...

Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow ...

Bots are overwhelming social media, distorting engagement metrics, spreading misinformation, and eroding trust in online interactions. Decentralization can fix this key concern. As the old wisdom goes ...