Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter's recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...

Instagram is testing new shortcuts for Your Algorithm, making it easier for users to adjust recommendations while browsing ...

Instagram is testing new features that could give users more control over the content its algorithm recommends, as its parent ...

These days, more and more people listen to music on streaming apps – in early 2020, 400 million people were subscribed to one. These platforms use algorithms to recommend music based on listening ...

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

Recommender systems are machine learning applications in online platforms that automate tasks historically done by people. In the news industry, recommender algorithms can assume the tasks of editors ...

New information about how various factors influence YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm is revealed by members of the team responsible for working on it. Having only been implemented in 2016, we ...

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would give people more control over the algorithms that shape their online experience. If passed ...