The UK government wants YouTube to prioritize trusted news broadcasters during major events. YouTube warns the proposal could ...

That’s no coincidence, because TikTok’s algorithm is actually one of the most sophisticated recommendation systems on the ...

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter's recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

Teenagers want a greater voice in the design and governance of platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...

YouTube’s recommendations algorithm can lead you down some very weird rabbit holes, suggesting videos that feel weirdly personal and off-target at the same time ...

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would give people more control over the algorithms that shape their online experience. If passed ...

TikTok's U.S. sale shifted ownership to American investors, but ByteDance's continuing role in the recommendation algorithm ...

Instagram is testing new features that could give users more control over the content its algorithm recommends, as its parent ...

Mozilla just launched a site featuring 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation algorithm served bizarre and horrifying videos the users had shown no interest in.

China has approved a new regulation to better regulate the use of algorithms — computational sequences widely used by internet and tech companies to engage users — as regulators accelerate efforts to ...