There are lots of things I love about Instagram. Keeping in touch with my pals across the world, getting all the fashion and beauty tips from my fave influencers and re-watching my own Story more ...

Porn bots are more or less ingrained in the social media experience, despite platforms’ best efforts to stamp them out. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing them flooding the comments sections of memes ...

Daphne, a 22-year-old marketing manager, knew it was never going to work out with her ex, Dave. There were red flags from the start, she says: Since they started dating in the spring of 2022, Dave ...

The last thing I expected to find on Instagram was someone telling me not to look at their Story if I didn't want to masturbate. But that comment, which I can only assume was intended reverse ...

Spam operators using bots to promote adult-themed services change their tactics to avoid Instagram's detection mechanism. Redirects remain the main stratagem but they come with other tricks meant to ...

Instagram creators will soon find it much easier to deal with spammy followers and bots. According to a new post on the Instagram blog, you will soon be able to process the removal of spam and bot ...

Bots, bots, everywhere, but nothing good to click. As the social media networks of the world engage in a performative struggle to become good for people's well being, they have been simultaneously ...

IRANIAN women’s rights groups have for months faced a deluge of bots following their Instagram accounts and disrupting their digital outreach operations. Activists say that while they have repeatedly ...

Don't worry. They're not Russian bots. Imagine this: You get an Instagram notification on your phone. Excitement immediately pulses through your body when you realize you have a new follower on the ...