Misinformation and disinformation have scaled in the Information Age. MIT researchers analyzed 126,000 stories between 2006 and 2016 and found that false stories spread six times faster than true ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Let's take some Top Social Media “Influencers” (Link to List). We analyzed the communities from @jeffbullas, @briansolis and ...

Social media bots are fake accounts that use automated or semi-automated programming to infiltrate platforms and shape how humans behave online. Groups or individuals create social media bots for a ...

Back in 2011, a team from Texas A&M University carried out a cyber sting to trap nonhuman Twitter users that were polluting the Twittersphere with spam. Their approach was to set up “honeypot” ...