Instagram has fewer fake comments today after the company shut down Instagress, an automated Instagram bot, by request earlier this week. Liking and commenting on other images is a popular way to both ...

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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 repeatedly ...

Instagram is engaging in an epic battle of the bots — but instead of a clash of steel, this fight is quietly pitting social media against non-human interactions. After shutting down the bot platform ...

Instagress, one of the easier-to-use and more affordable of the dozens of websites that create bots to help would-be Instagram influencers rack up followers and engagement, was shuttered today. In a ...

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 ...

A Manhattan data scientist is turning the social media influencer world on its head by revealing that he created a bot that not only runs a successful Manhattan-themed Instagram account on its own, ...

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 to stop ...