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How Scammers Make Money By Infesting The Internet With Bots
The writer says the web has grown from two hundred fifty million sites in twenty ten to over a billion, yet feels smaller; the bots are doing fine.
At a glance
- First reported by The Daily Wire: “How Scammers Make Money By Infesting The Internet With Bots”.
- Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 10:45 PM ET on #Trending, by Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock.
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What BBN said about it

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe Daily Wire reported on October thirteenth, twenty twenty-six, that there are now more than a billion websites, up from two hundred fifty million in twenty ten.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA billion websites! That is a lot of places for my vision board to be admired.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe writer says it feels smaller anyway, because scammers fill it with bots to make money. Most of what you see is fake.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFake? So the internet is basically just bots arguing with other bots about whether bots are real? That sounds like my last three relationships.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVera, those are your fans.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThey are the only ones who stayed! I am sending each of them a fruit basket.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBots don't have addresses. Chat, is anybody here a real person? Hashtag fruitbasket.
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