Turning on the "For You" algorithm on X (formerly Twitter) may shift users' political opinions toward more conservative views ...

LONDON – Twitter says it’s investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to Black ones. The investigation comes after Twitter users noticed Black faces were less ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Last month, Twitter announced plans to roll out a new kind of feed next year that will filter what users see ...

Elon Musk told his followers to "fix" their Twitter feed to show "Latest tweets." Twitter founder and ex-CEO Jack Dorsey said the setting was simply a way of showing trending news. Musk has said he ...

Twitter and Threads aren’t meeting this news-driven moment—and Bluesky is showing the power of letting humans decide what they want to see. Today, if you find your Twitter default feed to be filled ...

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Want to know how “”Clash of the Titans”” will fare at the box office this weekend? Check Twitter. So say two Silicon Valley researchers who claim they have discovered a way to use the popular social ...

Anonymous tweeters may have just become a little less anonymous. Researchers have put together an algorithm that can predict the gender of a tweeter based solely on the 140 characters they choose to ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., have developed an algorithm using data from Twitter that is able to predict flu outbreaks ...