Moderators of the WallStreetBets online discussion forum, which has been credited with creating a frenzy in the shares of GameStop and others, said bots are responsible for a "large amount" of the ...

PCWorld reports that Reddit is exploring identity verification methods including Face ID, Touch ID, and third-party services to combat its growing bot problem. The initiative aims to authenticate real ...

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 ...

Redditors around the world were scandalized last week after learning that a team of researchers released a swarm of AI-powered, human-impersonating bots on the "Change My View" subreddit. The ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

The web forum said it would be creating a waitlist for third-party developers to get their hands on an upcoming toolkit. Reading time 2 minutes Reddit, the centralized online forum, has been coasting ...

Reddit is looking at potential ways to fight AI bots on the platform, such as ID verification. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in ...

There's plenty of drama on Reddit, but it's not often that drama gets to play out on the screen. Until now, at least. On Sunday, 24-year-old software engineer Micah Price from Cape Town, South Africa, ...

Unlike many other platforms, Reddit’s earned a reputation for embracing the countless weird and wacky bots its users have created to run wild on the platform. And while some of these bots have gone to ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...