Computerphile

Bad Bot Problem

2026 • E7    Feb 19, 2026    12m
Following a report on the situation with Social Media and bots, Lewis Stuart of University of Nottingham is inspired to see just how easy it is to fire up his own botnet and puts them to work on a fake social media site: 'scroll hole.'

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