Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we ...

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. I’m a social ...

How social media algorithms warp our ... and my colleagues and I have found evidence suggesting that a side effect of this design is that algorithms amplify information people are strongly ...

Optimizing designs for user engagement undermines mental health and society. Social media sites favor hype and scandal over ...

The hearing is entirely focused on social media algorithms. “Nearly all social media platforms – including the three companies represented at Tuesday’s hearing – use algorithms to curate ...

All users of social media are exposed to these signals, but researchers understand that teens are at an especially malleable stage in the formation of personal identity. Scholars have begun to ...

In another bill, the Protecting Americans from Dangerous Algorithms Act, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) propose suspending Section 230 protections and making companies liable ...

Nowadays, what we see on our social media feeds is determined by algorithms (i.e., sets of rules and conditions), and their primary aim is to increase the amount of time we spend there.

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my ...