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Before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems, such as social media feeds and online shopping ...

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At the Anti-Defamation League’s Never Is Now conference this month, one of the most crowded sessions attempted to answer the question: Are artificial intelligence chatbots antisemitic? In a packed ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — If you are on on Facebook, you may have seen a post that says you can use a trick to see more of what your friends post. These posts come around every few months ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

There's no way to shut off the TikTok algorithm, but there are ways to train it. Kaspars Grinvalds - stock.adobe.com If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile.

The TikTok algorithm learns what you spend the most time watching and shows you more of that in large volumes. If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, ...

For decades, communications leaders understood the rules of access. If you wanted attention at scale, you went through editors, producers, publishers and journalists. Media gatekeepers decided what ...