Understanding how social media algorithms work offers advantages that extend far beyond simply getting more likes or ...

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

In my recent book, Rethinking How We Think: Integrative Meta-perspective and the Cognitive “Growing Up” on Which Our Future Depends, I went into detail about the dangers of device addiction and what ...

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 ...

Do your social media accounts feed you content that reflects your core beliefs and guiding principles? Our new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the ...

Grew up back East, got sick of the cold and headed West. Since I was small I have been pushing buttons – both electronic and human. With an insatiable need for tech I thought “why not start a website ...

Social media users could switch off recommender algorithms in their social media feeds, under new draft laws the Australian government plans to unveil this week. The proposed digital duty of care ...

We’ll require social media platforms to provide user empowerment tools that give people over the age of 16 genuine and ...

Australia plans to let social media users choose algorithmic or follow-only feeds under new digital safety rules targeting ...

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