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Unmasking the Dead Internet: How bots and propaganda hijacked online discourse

The internet is not the place we once knew. Every week, millions of people argue with AI bot networks and paid workers at troll farms like the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization based in ...
Gizmodo

Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...
Government Technology

Governments, Take Note: Bad Internet Bots Are on the Rise

A new report from IT security company Imperva indicates that COVID-19 helped give birth to a historic amount of nonhuman activity on the Internet. The report is based on global customer data from the ...
The Verge

On the internet, nobody knows you’re a human

is a culture writer and co-founder of the newsletter Embedded. Last April, 27-year-old Nicole posted a TikTok video about feeling burned out in her career. When she checked the comments the next day, ...