Brief: Instagram, the Facebook-owned image-sharing app with 1 billion users worldwide, may have as many as 95 million bots posing as real accounts, making the platform the next frontier in the fight ...

Instagram is planning to boot out suspicious accounts, including bots, by verification through government IDs. The company’s idea is to control “potential inauthentic behavior,” presumably ...

IRANIAN women’s rights groups have for months faced a deluge of bots following their Instagram accounts and disrupting their digital outreach operations. Activists say that while they have ...

Instagrammers may be seeing fewer fake comments after bot Instagress has closed its doors, at the request of the social media platform.

I did the unthinkable – I used a bot service to grow my partner’s Instagram account.Most social platforms are now saturated, and with more competition between savvy users, it’s near ...