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  • Do spam bots really comprise under 5% of Twitter users? Elon Musk wants to know

    Researchers estimate that anywhere from 9% to 15% of the millions of Twitter profiles are automated accounts, or bots, based on one early study, from 2017, and more recent research from a firm that monitors online conversations.

  • Are bots propping up Tesla’s stock? Two researchers share why there is reason to investigate

    University of Maryland’s Prof. David Kirsch and his research assistant Mohsen Chowdhury share why they started looking into the company’s social-media narrative and what correlation they have found so far.

  • Facebook says took down 1.3 billion fake accounts in October-December

    The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation, it said in a blog post.

  • Facebook shut 583 million fake accounts

    Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

  • Warren Buffet's favourite bank fined $185 mn for customer fraud

    Buffett has long been a fan of Wells Fargo and invested in the bank in 1989, says a Bloomberg report. Most of his stake is held through Berkshire insurance subsidiaries, though he also owns some shares of Wells Fargo personally, according to the report

  • Fake Twitter accounts in name of PMO still operational

    Fake Twitter accounts in the name of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's office continue to remain operational on Thursday even as the government pushed the micro-blogging site to remove such pages.

  • 8.7% Facebook accounts are fake

    In its 10-Q filing that Facebook made public this week, it revealed that 8.7 percent, or 83.09 million accounts ...

  • Twitter embarrassed by fake Wendi Murdoch account

    Twitter, the popular micro blogging site, apologized on Tuesday for incorrectly verifying a false account for Wendi ...

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