One Instagram user who works in marketing for a number of major global corporate accounts (a ubiquitous soft drink brand among them) bought a small army of bots about three months ago. She decided to ...

All websites have problems with spam. Many of the large clients I work with have spammers hitting them daily. This is no different for the mammoth players like Instagram. If you’re unfamiliar with ...

The Information's report about Instagram bots shows that fake accounts remain rampant on social media platforms. The issue is particularly concerning for marketers that pay for endorsements based on ...

Instagram has fewer fake comments today after the company shut down Instagress, an automated Instagram bot, by request earlier this week. Liking and commenting on other images is a popular way to both ...

Instagress, one of the easier-to-use and more affordable of the dozens of websites that create bots to help would-be Instagram influencers rack up followers and engagement, was shuttered today. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s no doubt that AI is extremely efficient compared to humans. It can make decisions and solve problems in seconds. However, that efficiency might have stepped on some toes in the process.