President Trump’s political success was derived in part by being omnipresent on every screen. So his recent absence from public view provoked all sorts of speculation – fed by social media algorithms ...

Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we ...

A new study from researchers at the University of Amsterdam suggests exactly that. In a surprising experiment, the study authors built a stripped-down social media platform populated entirely by AI ...

Experts explain how social media algorithms shape our news consumption and how users can regain control over their feeds.

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Do you ever wonder why your social media posts never seem to get shown to all of your followers? I mean ... how do social media algorithms work anyway?

Experts explain how social media algorithms shape our news consumption and how users can regain control over their feeds.