Instagram is giving users more control over their social media experience with the rollout of a new feature called “Your Algorithm.” The update is designed to help people understand why certain posts ...

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, ...

Overview: Social media algorithms personalize content by analyzing watch time, engagement, and user behavior to determine ...

Topic controls give users more say in what they see, pushing brands to create content tied to clear audience interests.

A new report released today by the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) of the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) has uncovered troubling evidence that Instagram’s recommendation algorithm can rapidly ...

Instagram has expanded its "Your Algorithm" feature to the main Feed, allowing users to view and adjust the topics that ...

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 ...

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

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 ...