Under the Algorithm Accountability Act unveiled Nov. 19, social media companies would lose that legal immunity if they use an algorithm to promote content that results in harm.

(THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S. investors. President Donald Trump announced a ...

For years, publishers chased scale by appeasing the opaque algorithms of search and social platforms, only to watch traffic ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of Utah lawmakers in Washington are pushing to amend a nearly 30-year-old law governing online communications to hold technology companies accountable for harms caused by ...

Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we interact ...

How many times do you check social media every day? How much time have you spent curating your feeds with all of your likes and interests to the point where you only see things that make you smile?

A French mother whose teenage son took his own life is fighting to hold social media platforms accountable, saying their ...

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas told CNN’s Jake Tapper his country’s world-first social media ban for children ...

Co-authored by Nigel Bairstow, Ph.D., and Jeremy Neofytos, Research Assistant Over the last seven years, the customer experience on social media has shifted dramatically, moving away from the early ...

For years, social media automation has largely meant one thing: scheduling posts. Conventional social media management tools ...

At the age of 16, my son Mason Edens went through his first break-up. This is always a difficult time for any teenager, but one that almost everyone experiences. I did what any supportive parent would ...