LOS ANGELES: Researchers at Stanford University say they have developed a tool that can noticeably reduce partisan hostility in X feeds by reordering posts rather than blocking them. The study, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

The algorithm has gone wild! Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman denied looking at porn on a flight after photos of him staring at racy images on his iPad went viral — instead blaming his algorithm for ...

Sky's Tom Cheshire explained how the Data and Forensics team looked into how right wing opinions are pushed on X. ‘Fake admiral’ takes centre stage at Remembrance event Dick Van Dyke, 99, says he is ...

PARIS, Nov 4 (Reuters) - French judicial authorities said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok and the risks that its algorithms could push young ...

On a scorching July afternoon in Shanghai, dozens of Chinese students hunch over tablet screens, engrossed in English, math and physics lessons. Algorithms track every keystroke, and the seconds spent ...

The TikTok algorithm, built by its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd., is what has made the app so popular with half of America. The enormously powerful technology can master the intricacies of our ...

Tensions around immigration continue to rise amongst communities around the nation, with Los Angeles being one of the epicenters of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s community raids. Recently, ...

Onlookers have long suspected that Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has a right-wing bias embedded in its digital DNA, and, in January of this year, cybercrime authorities in France took it upon ...

A French prosecutor has opened a criminal investigation into social platform X and its owner, Elon Musk, on accusations of “creating bias in France’s democratic debate.” The investigation comes after ...

Offline, in real-world Los Angeles, most Angelenos are having a perfectly normal day. But online, the fires and riots are still raging. The powerful algorithms that fuel social media platforms are ...