In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

Europe’s far right has surged. Now the far left is pushing back. Some voters are moving to the left, boosting parties that appeared moribund just a few years ago, polls and recent elections show. The ...

Left-handers are more competitive than right-handers, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings may help explain why left-handedness has persisted throughout ...

Most people are right-handed, but 10.6 percent are left-handed. There is a long-standing debate on why this specific 90-to-10 pattern between right-handedness and left-handedness has been pretty much ...

T he American left is a pretty cerebral lot: It contains a lot of grad students, underemployed humanities majors and hyperliterate autodidacts, and this educational glut is often grounds for criticism ...

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...

Apple’s popular news app has been aggressively promoting articles from left-leaning news outlets – even as it has all but shut down posts from more conservative publications, according to an explosive ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. TikTok has reached a deal that will allow it to keep operating in the United States, with a majority American-owned joint ...

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

Whenever I hear the plaintive lyrics of “Baraye,” the song that became an anthem for the 2022 Iranian protests, I still tear up—and I find it hard to imagine anyone having a different reaction.

The sight of the country’s most powerful technology chief executive officers lined up behind the president at an inauguration they helped pay for was a visual declaration that the Silicon Valley ...