{
  "id": 13803,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23941",
  "title": "Mapping the Reddit Bot Ecosystem: Taxonomy and Evolution",
  "summary": "arXiv:2607.23941v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Automated agents increasingly participate in online communities, yet their population structure and roles remain poorly understood. Using a dataset of 3,389 identified bots and their full activity histories, we construct a taxonomy of bot \"species\" on the news aggregation and social media platform Reddit based on temporal, community, linguistic, and semantic features. Clustering analysis reveals 18 distinct bot types spanning content-specialized,",
  "authors": "Qiusi Sun, Thomas Gaskin, Branko Blagojevic, Milena Tsvetkova",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-28T04:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-28T05:10:12.325Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-cscy",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.CY",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13803",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23941",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}