Porn bots are more or less ingrained in the social media experience, despite platforms’ best efforts to stamp them out. We’ve grown accustomed to seeing them flooding the comments sections of memes ...

Daphne, a 22-year-old marketing manager, knew it was never going to work out with her ex, Dave. There were red flags from the start, she says: Since they started dating in the spring of 2022, Dave ...

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 ...

Fake and spam followers have become a growing concern for users on Instagram. These bot accounts may inflate follower counts, ...

When Meta launched its “AI Studio” feature for over two billion Instagram users in July 2024, the company promised a tool that would give anyone the ability to create their own AI characters “to make ...

Instagram now allows users to easily review and remove suspicious spam or bot followers. Accounts suspected of being spam are ...

With Instagram comes the Instagram bot accounts that plague our timelines, comment sections, and more. MarketingDive even calculated that there could be as many as 95 million bot accounts on Instagram ...

This article is based on coverage by Meta.mk News Agency published on November 16 and November 23, 2025. An edited version is republished here under a content-sharing agreement between Global Voices ...

Those are descriptions from federal politicians and child-safety advocates of the “sensual” and “romantic” chats Meta allowed its artificial intelligence bots on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to ...

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 ...