Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect ...

Facebook’s algorithm 1 is its superpower — and its ... a mathematics professor at Bentley University and author of “How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News.” “For example, ...

Instagram in 2025 shows posts based on what you like, share, and save. Reels, comments, and saves matter more than just likes ...

Facebook-parent Meta is the subject of four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory.

Mozilla led a 10-month investigation to try and uncover the workings of YouTube's recommendation algorithm - and found it is time for the platform to provide full transparency.

To use an overly simplistic example, if a lot of 25-year-old women who like Star Wars keep tapping “like” on one man’s profile, the algorithm might show him to more sci-fi fans in that age ...

For example, researchers speculated that the “UkraineCrisisTopic” parameter found in Twitter’s source code was a signal for the algorithm to demote tweets referring to the invasion of Ukraine.

TECH TikTok algorithm mystery: What we know, and don’t know, about the Chinese government's control of the app Experts warn TikTok algorithm likely being manipulated to fit Chinese Communist ...

Though the study is interesting, it's another example of a large social platform not gaining informed consent from users before experimenting on them. "Their finding is of interest; it's useful ...