But TikTok showed that an algorithm, driven by the understanding of a user's interest, could be more powerful. Rather than building its algorithm on "social graph" like Meta has, TikTok executives ...

TikTok’s algorithm has returned to the spotlight after Byte Dance signed agreements to form a joint venture. This move hands ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twitter's algorithm appeared to identify whether a tweet was authored by Elon Musk and labeled tweets as "Democrat," "Republican" or "power user." ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...