The content you see on social media is often determined by an algorithm - and it turns out that these algorithms can rapidly change your views By Chris Stokel-Walker 28 November 2024 ...

Social media platforms and other sites and apps will soon need to make key changes to keep children safer online; Currently, many algorithms use triggering content to keep users engaged ...

Jack Dorsey says a marketplace of algorithms could fix toxic social media — but centralized platforms won’t give up their control easily.

This enhanced visibility will improve our knowledge of the algorithms that power social media platforms – and their impact on society. For example, since its launch in 2021, ...

DUBLIN: Social media platforms have long been criticized for using opaque algorithms that dictate what users see on their feeds. But according to research published by the journal Science and ...

Nearly 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris ...

Social media platforms have been implicated in conflicts of all scales, from urban gun violence to the storming of the US Capitol building on January 6 and civil war in South Sudan.Scientifically ...

On social media platforms, algorithms are mainly designed to amplify information that sustains engagement, meaning they keep people clicking on content and coming back to the platforms.

Algorithms. The decisions around the types of posts that we see when scrolling through social media are in the hands of algorithms rather than people, computer programs ran by companies that own ...

I firmly believe that my son would be alive today had the TikTok algorithm not shown him those videos. ... Jennie DeSerio has worked tirelessly to defend children against social media harms.