A study has found that social media recommendation algorithms expose users to more political anger and hate speech during election periods, leading them to feel greater hostility toward opposing camps ...

An LMU study reveals how Facebook and Instagram deliver political advertising. The algorithms seem to favor the contents of certain parties. In the run-up to polling day, election campaigns go into ...

Billionaire investor and television personality Mark Cuban on Monday argued social media algorithms will play a large role in the 2024 election, calling those who control the algorithms “the most ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst have published work in the journal Science calling into question the conclusions of a widely reported ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban cautioned that social media algorithms, rather than candidates' policies or personalities, could have the greatest influence on voter behavior in the upcoming 2026 ...

This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) (CN) — A study claiming Meta’s news feed algorithm ...

A study of recent electoral cycles in Romania, Bulgaria and Kosovo shows what can happen when algorithms are allowed to hack democracy. This new ‘TikTokcracy’ must not go unchallenged. In December ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Will social media decide who becomes president? That's what Mark Cuban is worrying about. The ...

Check (MBFC) and shared at least 100 times, whereas Guess et al. consider any post by users with two or The UMass Amherst-led team’s work shows that the Meta-funded research was conducted during a ...