Reddit takes on the bots with new ‘human verification’ requirements for fishy behavior
Reddit will require suspected automated accounts to verify they’re human, as it ramps up efforts to curb bot-driven spam and manipulation.
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X begins rolling out the ‘About this account’ feature to users’ profiles
The feature will show where users are based, how they’re connected to X, and how many times they’ve changed their username.
X plans to show more information about user profiles to help improve trust
X is working on new transparency features to help users identify who they’re interacting with, such as account creation date, location, username change history, and how each account uses the service.
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.