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X is boosting posts among mutual followers after finding that relationship data was missing from its algorithm, exposing the gap between predicting engagement and creating conversations people ...

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users ...

The European Commission claims the infinite scroll and personalized content on Meta's apps can lead to 'unhealthy habits and compulsive use.' ...

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push ...

Changes to Facebook’s algorithm may have decreased organic reach, but there are techniques social media marketers can use to ...

Look up at the clouds. What do you see? A sailboat? A seahorse? Your great-aunt Rosemary? As humans, we're prone to seeing patterns where they don't actually exist. This behavior is so common there's ...

An audit of TikTok’s recommendation algorithm using hundreds of automated ‘bot’ accounts during the 2024 US presidential election finds that the ‘For You’ feed of the platform steered users towards ...

I’ll say it: Social media made me a better parent. I know – the platforms are owned by one evil empire or another, and they’ve shredded our collective attention span to sawdust. But the truth is, the ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. When you hit the share button on social media ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...