Recommendations feature also pushed anti-vaccination and antisemitic material, watchdog says

Commentary: Algorithms may seem innocuous, but the U.K.'s competition authority sees ways they can be used to hurt consumers.

The Facebook Oversight Board (FOB) is already feeling frustrated by the binary choices it’s expected to make as it reviews Facebook’s content moderation decisions, according to one of its members who was giving evidence to a UK House of Lords committee today which is running an enquiry …

In this report on algorithms that curate feeds and tech company secrecy, Consumer Reports says the algorithms influence which videos and products you see online, and how social media posts are moderated.

Transparency is the first step to fixing social media’s ills, including privacy, content moderation, and bias issues, says Mark MacCarthy.

Some fresh ideas for how to stop social media algorithms from damaging society by amplifying lies and fringe ideas.

In a recent call with Twitter’s investors, the CEO of the company, Jack Dorsey, spoke about his vision of a decentralized network. Called Bluesky, it aims at giving users the chance to choose their algorithm

Social-media platforms have created new ways for citizens to stay informed and participate in public debates. However, to enable a healthy environment for information sharing, social deliberation, and opinion formation, citizens need to be exposed to sufficiently diverse viewpoints that challenge their assumptions, instead of being trapped inside filter bubbles. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to maximize the diversity of exposure in a social network.

But it's hard to know what they're not revealing.

We’re still at the mercy of the algorithms. That needs to change, and it’s up to social-media companies to change it, writes columnist Joanna Stern.