At the same time, the consumption of political news on Facebook and Instagram was highly segregated by ideology, according to another study. SAN FRANCISCO — The algorithms powering Facebook and ...

For years, regulators and activists have worried that social media companies’ algorithms were dividing the United States with politically toxic posts and conspiracies. The concern was so widespread ...

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Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

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 ...

Facebook is the latest large tech company to begin mass layoffs, choosing 60 contractors reportedly at random using an algorithm. The unlucky contractors were employed by Meta via its Austin office of ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Consulting firm Accenture reportedly used an algorithm to let go of about 60 contracted workers for Facebook, according to Insider. The ...

A firm contracted by Meta recently told dozens of its workers that their work for Facebook “was soon being taken away,” according to a new report from Insider. The cuts affect about 60 employees of ...