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

Research has suggested social media algorithms fuel disputes and may lead to real world violence.

The Massachusetts Senate is set to debate a bill that would require social media platforms to adopt default settings for ...

X is boosting posts among mutual followers after finding that relationship data was missing from its algorithm, exposing the gap between predicting engagement and creating conversations people ...

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as "for you," suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just "for you" but also "about ...

What if the greatest threat facing children online isn’t a single viral challenge, but an algorithm that learns their fears, insecurities and struggles and then feeds them more of the same? That is ...

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

I’ve removed all my social media apps — Instagram, Twitter, TikTok — and moved them onto an old iPhone I had lying around my ...

Discover how social media algorithms use your digital footprints to predict your interests and personalize your online ...

My post last week was all about the political ramifications of social media. But they are called “social” media for a reason. The social effects are easily as important and problematic. So here goes: ...

Spend far too many hours mindlessly scrolling social media feeds, where a black-box algorithm fine-tuned for maximum ...