A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

Timothy Graham receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for the Discovery Project, 'Understanding and Combatting "Dark Political Communication"'. A new study published today in ...

Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

The EU is threatening to take action against the social media company. It could be the start of a global reckoning. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

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Congress passed, and the Supreme Court upheld, a 2024 law requiring TikTok’s divestment from ByteDance, or a U.S. ban, making corporate control and algorithm access central national security concerns.

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...

PINE RIVER — Happy Dancing Turtle and Pine River-Backus Community Education will host the 20th annual Back to Basics sustainable living event Feb. 7 at Pine River-Backus School. Workshops, vendors, ...

BEIJING, Dec ‌20 (Reuters) - The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short ‌video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner ByteDance ...