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Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

Tech

“The final straw”: AI bots crash popular astrology site AstroSeek

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

Charlotte Colombo

“RIP Digg, again”: Just months after relaunching, Digg lays off its staff and shutters site

“Repulsive and immoral”: Backlash grows after Meta obtains patent for AI bots to take over a dead user’s account

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

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“It’s really not fair”: Jimmy Wales reveals Wikipedia’s servers are struggling thanks to AI bots pretending to be humans

x turns on user location most ironic maga accounts no based in usa

Viral Politics

Irony overload hits X as new location feature reveals many pro-Trump MAGA accounts are actually based outside of America

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

Rebekah Harding

chris appleton on the red carpet next to tiktok comments

“He should’ve just left it be”: Comment  asking for a “description of the video” left on Chris Appleton’s book announcement post sparks debate over purchased bot followers

“Y’all said the same thing 2 years ago”: Twitch CEO says company is finally taking action against viewbotters

Mikael Thalen is a tech and security reporter covering social media, data breaches, hackers, and more.

Mikael Thalen

‘FSB forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign?

The Botnet social network simulator makes you famous among millions of bots

Be an influencer on this app, where a million bots are designed to hype you up

Whitney Kimball is a New York-based freelance writer, Sunday cartoonist, and former editor for Art F City, Hopes &amp; Fears, and Jezebel. She can be reached at <a href="http://www.whitneykimball.com">whitneykimball.com</a>.

Whitney Kimball

Who’s afraid of a Twitter bot?

Stéphanie Fillion is a French-Canadian journalist covering politics and foreign affairs in Montreal, Canada. She has worked for Radio-Canada in Vancouver and was a San Paolo fellow at La Stampa in Turin. In 2015, she won the Eu-Canada Young Journalist Award. She holds an M.A. in Journalism, Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia Journalism School and a B.A. in Comparative Politics, History and Italian Studies from McGill University. Her work appeared in outlets such as Quartz, Vice News, Ipolitics, and PassBlue.

Stephanie Fillion

Twitter removed 10,000 bots that could have discouraged people from voting on Nov. 6

Daily Dot Contributor

Unclick

Ice T has seen some s**t, and this Twitter bot is proof

*record scratch* This Twitter bot explains how we got here

Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.

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