In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A recent study by Ohio State University researchers found that personalized algorithms, which are used by numerous social media platforms, lead to a distorted view of reality ...

Can we ever really trust algorithms to make decisions for us? Previous research has proved these programs can reinforce society’s harmful biases, but the problems go beyond that. A new study shows how ...

If you opened Facebook, Twitter or Instagram about a decade ago, you'd likely see posts from friends and family, in chronological order. Nowadays, users are hit with a barrage of content curated by an ...

In four new studies, researchers found complicated results from experiments on Facebook’s and Instagram’s algorithms, suggesting there was no silver bullet to fixing the platforms. By Mike Isaac and ...