The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...

A new book by Kyle Chayka titled "Filterworld" examines the profound influence of algorithmic recommendations on user experiences in the constantly changing social media platform landscape. He ...

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy ...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers have struggled to tamp down online misinformation and extremism. The latest effort, from Sens. Mark ...

Social media algorithms amplify extreme content, such as misogynistic posts, which normalizes harmful ideologies for young people, finds a new report co-authored by Professor Nicola Shaughnessy from ...

How many times do you check social media every day? How much time have you spent curating your feeds with all of your likes and interests to the point where you only see things that make you smile?

Personally, one of my top resolutions for this year is to improve my relationship with social media. While some people might ...

It’s a situation many of us know all know too well: You find yourself endlessly scrolling through social media, only to realize that much more time has passed than you realized, or intended to spend ...

If you're seeing the same types of stories repeatedly on your social media feeds, you're not alone, and it's due to something called an "algorithm.""It's a series of steps that a computer follows in ...

In January, I tapped on the “explore” page of my Instagram account and was greeted with a flood of food-related posts. Fruit had too much sugar to be healthy. You should switch out buns for lettuce on ...