YouTube keeps the suggestion algorithm a secret, preventing researchers from studying how it works. The study, commissioned by Firefox maker Mozilla, collected responses from nearly 40,000 YouTube ...

Anna Mockel was 14 and suddenly obsessed with losing weight. It was spring 2020, and she had just graduated eighth grade remotely. Housebound and nervous about the transition to high school that ...

Social media companies aren’t just hosting antisemitic and hateful content, their algorithms are helping to push interested users deeper down extremist rabbit holes, according to two new reports ...

Minnesota legislators introduced a bill Feb. 19 to ban rent-fixing algorithms to prevent landlords from artificially using shared data to inflate rent prices. Rent price algorithms have increased rent ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook has said it is time to face the consequences of having algorithms push users towards more engagement at any cost. Speaking at the Computers ...

YouTube is still suggesting videos with misinformation, violent content, and COVID-19 misinformation, according to a major new study published this month. Notably, this isn't just an issue with ...