In a move that will please some of Instagram’s critics, the company will now allow users to reset the recommendation system that powers what they see in their feeds. “We want to make sure everyone on ...

Study shows tech firms struggle defining fairness in recommendation systems due to organizational incentive constraints ...

TikTok's algorithm did not treat Democrats and Republicans equally during the 2024 US presidential election. According to a paper published in Nature, its recommendation system showed a ...

Last week, the United States Senate played host to a number of social media company VPs during hearings on the potential dangers presented by algorithmic bias and amplification. While that meeting ...

New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithms like personalized searches, recommendation systems, and AI-powered curation can make us more isolated and polarized, or ...

I've been working in data and artificial intelligence (AI) since it was just called statistics and applied math. But over the past decade, AI has approached a troubling inflection point. Notably, the ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...