Your social media feed is designed to keep you scrolling. Most platforms rely on black-box algorithms to study what captures ...

Every time you scroll, like, or share on a social media platform, an algorithm is watching, learning, and deciding what you ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

YouTube has quietly shared new details explaining how viewers can directly influence what appears in their recommendations.

However, there is a secret in plain sight that we have used at my agency for years—one that remains remarkably immune to the ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in Los Angeles County Superior Court last week, defending his company against claims that ...

Instagram has introduced a new feature called “Your Algorithm” that gives users more control over the content they see in their Reels feed. The update uses artificial intelligence to better understand ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...