Are we shaping our feeds or are they shaping us — and is this healthy? Faculty weigh in recommendation algorithms.

New survey data suggest recommendation engines are doing more than shaping what people buy, watch and read. They may also be ...

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter's recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

Google Discover continually learns from clicks, likes, dismissals, blocks, reading behavior, location, and other user signals ...

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...

Spotify is rolling out Taste Profile to Premium users in the U.S., letting listeners see how the streamer understands their tastes and use natural language to reshape their recommendations ...

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

For years, Spotify’s recommendation algorithm has been the invisible DJ controlling what millions of listeners hear next. Now, the platform is finally letting users step behind the booth. The ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...