Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let ...

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, ...

Gabriela: I want to get a little meta here, listeners. For one reason or another, you opened up some digital streaming tool and it led you to me. Or rather, my voice hosting this podcast. Maybe you’re ...

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 ...

Overview: Recommendation algorithms study user behavior patterns to predict future choices.Netflix, Amazon, and Spotify use ...

China has approved a new regulation to better regulate the use of algorithms — computational sequences widely used by internet and tech companies to engage users — as regulators accelerate efforts to ...

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 ...

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have been widely applied in user cold-start recommender systems because they can gradually capture users’ dynamic interest preferences. Deep Q-Networks ...

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

Instagram has expanded its 'Your Algorithm' feature to the platform’s main Feed. This will allow users to view and adjust the topics that influence recommendations.

Meta is once again going after revamping Instagram's recommendation algorithm to boost original content and penalize accounts that lift posts from others. The company is updating its guidelines to ...