Sep 15 A New Israeli Study of Twitter’s Fake Users Suggests Elon Musk Might Be Right At least 12 percent of Twitter users are fake, according to year-long analysis by an Israeli cybersecurity firm. By Sissi Cao
Aug 23 Ex-Twitter Exec Peiter Zatko Exposes How Twitter Counts Bots as Musk Trial Date Nears Peiter Zatko, Twitter's former head of security, says Twitter's method of estimating the number of bot users is misleading. By Sissi Cao
Apr 9 Report: Bots Promote 66 Percent of Twittersphere Links As Silicon Valley flounders for a solution against disinformation on social media, fake accounts dominate Twitter. By Davis Richardson
Jan 29 New York Attorney General Opens Probe into Company Selling Fake Twitter Followers By Madina Toure
Aug 30 Bruce Springsteen Fans Kept ‘Waitin on a Sunny Day’ by Ticketmaster Verified Fan By John Bonazzo
May 4 USA Today Bragged About Having 10M Facebook Followers—Millions of Which Were Fake By Sage Lazzaro
Dec 29 Casper’s Insomnia Bot That Texts You When You Can’t Sleep Is Really, Really Weird By Sage Lazzaro
Apr 28 You Built a Slack Bot to Read Your Team the News and It Told Everyone Everything By Brady Dale