The federal rulemaking system includes periods of public input and discussion, but frequently the systems that collect comments are subject to spam, disinformation and other campaigns designed to ...

“According to multiple researchers, more than one million of the record 22 million comments the FCC received on its plans to roll back net neutrality protections were from bots that used natural ...

The record 22 million comments received by the FCC regarding the future of net neutrality has sparked considerable discussion about the impact of automated bots on the government’s ability to hear ...

When the Federal Communication Commission asked the public what it thought about its net neutrality rules in 2017, the comments flooded in—including millions submitted under fake names by ...

It started out as a bit of a joke. In June 2018, a user on a now-banned subreddit made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion about creating a bot—an automated account that could call out racists by going ...

From small publishers to US federal agencies, websites are reporting unusual spikes in automated traffic linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China.