The algorithms that most social media platforms like Facebook, X, and TikTok use today might be contributing to political ...

Major 2026 algorithm updates on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and other platforms are prioritizing originality, retention and deep engagement over follower counts and keyword targeting. These shifts ...

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 ...

‘For you’ offerings create a private-public space through which teens can access what they feel is a largely accurate test of their self-image. Social media apps regularly present teens with ...

Over the past 20 years, social media has transformed how we communicate, share information and form social connections. A federal parliamentary committee is currently trying to come to grips with ...

Big changes are coming for New York’s youngest social media users after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills into law Thursday clamping down on digital platforms’ algorithms and use of children’s data.

Former Vice President Al Gore took aim at social media algorithms Tuesday, saying sites that are “dominated by algorithms” are the “digital equivalent of AR-15s.” Gore, speaking at the Bloomberg Green ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...