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People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has outlined a proposal that would utilize zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography to enhance the transparency of social media algorithms, aiming to make their behavior ...

A new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago offers underlying evidence that the engagement-based ...

If you're seeing the same types of stories repeatedly on your social media feeds, you're not alone, and it's due to something called an "algorithm.""It's a series of steps that a computer follows in ...

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

In my last post, we talked about how there are prevalent concerns about online misinformation. These concerns are mostly driven by the third person effect which is the belief that most other people ...