Months after kicking off a wave of teen social media bans, Australia is now coming for social media algorithms.

Social media algorithms have fundamentally altered how information spreads online, often amplifying misleading content faster ...

Social media algorithms are a powerful feature of online life, serving up content to users based on their browsing habits or ...

Algorithmic feeds power all of the biggest social media sites, sending users content based on their interests to keep them ...

Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I attempt to travel back to 2012, before everything on the internet was an ad ...

Technology companies have been “running real-time, unregulated product testing on Australians” for too long, communications ...

The Australian government on Tuesday announced plans to force social media platforms to allow users to "opt-out" of ...

The Indian government has questioned Meta’s safe-harbour protection, arguing its content-amplifying algorithms make it a ...

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For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success.