The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots ...

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 ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Have we tried everything to tackle the climate crisis? At least one simple idea has hardly been explored: prioritizing climate content on social media. Take YouTube, where hundreds of millions of ...

In life, we sometimes have to make decisions without all the information we want; that’s true in computer science, too. This is the realm of online algorithms — which, despite their name, don’t ...

Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict, and the spread of misinformation, my ...

A Liberal frontbencher has urged stronger action to force Meta to publicly share the secret algorithms deciding what Australians see online.

People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my ...

Have we tried everything to tackle the climate crisis? At least one simple idea has hardly been explored: prioritizing climate content on social media. The climate crisis is seriously aggravated by a ...