How-To Guides

AI-generated posts, profiles, and images are getting harder to spot. Here are practical tells to look for — and why some of them are already becoming unreliable.

Liveness checks, ID verification, biometrics — what these actually mean, how banks have used them for years, and how Truliv applies the same approach to social accounts.

AI slop is the flood of low-effort AI-generated content filling social feeds, search results, and comment sections. Here's what it is, why there's so much of it, and what it's doing to online discourse.

Dead internet theory holds that most online activity is now generated by bots, AI, and coordinated accounts — not real people. Here's what the evidence actually shows.

With bots and AI personas flooding social platforms, finding genuine human interaction online takes more deliberate effort. Here are practical approaches that actually work.

Authenticity on social media gets talked about constantly but defined poorly. Here's what it actually means, the history of pseudonymity online, and why verification doesn't have to mean real names.

Proof of personhood is the technical and policy problem of proving a unique real human is behind an account. Here's how different approaches work, what they give up, and why it matters.

Bots on social media aren't an accident — they're the predictable result of how platforms make money. Here's the economics behind bot proliferation and why platforms don't clean it up.