YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content” or easily manipulated by “bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities,” a ...

Does YouTube create extremists? A recent study caused arguments among scientists by arguing that the algorithms that power the site don’t help radicalize people by recommending ever more extreme ...

I'm not mad at Spotify's, Netflix's, and YouTube's algorithms. I'm just disappointed. Credit: Mashable Composite: Spotifly, YouTube, Netflix ICONs Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious ...

The earth is actually flat! 9/11 was an inside job! YouTube was once rife with conspiracy theories like these — and its own recommendation algorithm was the culprit. While the company has made serious ...