In the classic ‘Spam’ sketch from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, exasperated diners at a café are met with menu choices of “egg and spam”, “spam, bacon, sausage and spam”, “spam, spam, spam, spam, spam ...

Forget finstas — there’s a new type of Instagram account taking over teens’ feeds these days. Gen Z is now embracing the “spam” account as a way to reclaim a more casual and authentic Instagram ...

Instagram spam accounts and messages are a serious problem for many users. Here's how to detect and prevent Instagram spam.

You've just been tagged in an Instagram post by a stranger. We've all been there. Most of the time, it's a spam account that's trying to sell you something — be it knock-off sunglasses or $20 logo ...

All websites have problems with spam. Many of the large clients I work with have spammers hitting them daily. This is no different for the mammoth players like Instagram. If you’re unfamiliar with ...

One Instagram user who works in marketing for a number of major global corporate accounts (a ubiquitous soft drink brand among them) bought a small army of bots about three months ago. She decided to ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Instagram has tweaked its spam filtering techniques for a second time this week.

Instagram is worth $35 billion because it’s a great platform for marketing to people. But it’s not such a great platform when marketers don’t have any way of knowing who those people are, or whether ...

A few weeks ago, my friend Jerry Iannelli’s family dog died. Like many people who go through the death of a beloved pet, Iannelli posted about it on Instagram, publishing a picture of Kona, a black ...

There isn't a day when I don't come across comments from bots on Instagram. They're all over the place. But there's nothing they love more than to spam high-profile pages with millions of followers.