THE Government has been urged to restrict “toxic” social media algorithms over potential harms being done to children.

Online shoppers in New York are now seeing a new warning on product pages thanks to consumer protection legislation that took ...

The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy ...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers have struggled to tamp down online misinformation and extremism. The latest effort, from Sens. Mark ...

A study shows that the order in which platforms like X display content to their users affects their animosity towards other ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...

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Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a set of innovative methods and algorithms that improve ...