If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, and many other platforms, use a “black-box” algorithm — an AI recommendation system that studies what captures ...

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.

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

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

The next step is sending that list onto an order processing algorithm that goes out and buys or sells the stocks that have been selected. The code may seem hard to follow, but it’s one of the oldest ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...