In its transparency report, LinkedIn says it blocked 7.8 million fake accounts before they were even created, 93% of which automatically.
Have you lost quite a few followers on Twitter? Don't worry; it's not you, it's them. Twitter will stop counting locked accounts in users' total number of followers.
A team of researchers from the University of Southern Carolina and Indiana University set out to determine how many Twitter accounts were bots. It turns out, 15% of all accounts are not humans. To do so, they …
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