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

Are the algorithms, of which I am sure there are many versions, something that people in the know could game? For example, if they see X Y and Z happening, they know some sort of action is soon to ...

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 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In 1973, the writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated an adage meant to capture the relationships humans were building with their machines: “Any sufficiently advanced ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

New research shows that people recognize more of their biases in algorithms' decisions than they do in their own -- even when those decisions are the same. Algorithms were supposed to make our lives ...

Feeds that amplify hysterical content are accelerating extremism and a grievance society that endangers us all.

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 ...

In this edition of Founder FAQ, Petra Smith, founder and Managing Director of the UK-based marketing consultancy Squirrels&Bears, answers: “How can I make my content go viral on social media?”You can’ ...

Spotify's 600 million users are facing one of the streaming service’s most anticipated, yet dreaded, events: Spotify Wrapped. The annual user listening report provides each Spotify user with a ...