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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The algorithms powering Facebook and Instagram, which drive what billions of people see on the social networks, have been in the crosshairs of lawmakers, activists and regulators for ...

Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...

Republicans have long decried Facebook and social media as biased against them. Former President Donald Trump remains suspended from Twitter and Facebook. Republican lawmakers and influencers have ...

"This borders on an indictment of Facebook's algorithm," said Laura Edelson, a computer scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU. She was not involved with the project but has done similar ...

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(CNN)Facebook-parent Meta is facing four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory, ...

New research published Thursday attempts to shed light on these questions. Four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature, are the first results of a long-awaited, repeatedly ...

Kathmandu, Feb. 23 -- In the month before Nepal's parliamentary elections, popular Facebook pages with a combined six million ...

In August 2023, Facebook users copied and pasted a boilerplate message into new posts about how to "bypass the system" to thwart an "algorithm" that purportedly "limits posts on your News Feed" to ...