The Internet Stopped Being Human: How Bots and AI Quietly Took Over Social Media

For the first time in a decade, more than half of all web traffic in 2024 came from machines, not people.

The internet is no longer human - share of global web traffic by source, 2013-2025. Bad bots climbed from one-in-five requests in 2013 to roughly four-in-ten in 2025 (preliminary, pending the April 2…