It's getting harder to avoid the algorithm.

It’s a mess in there

Twitter doesn’t know what causes this issue

  In September 2021, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked thousands of the company’s internal documents to the Wall Street Journal. This information consequently sparked a bipartisan conversation about the harms of social media. “Facebook consistently resolved those conflicts in favor of its own profits. The result has been a system that amplifies division, extremism...

A few months ago, a friend of mine logged into her Instagram on my phone. Later in the day, I found myself killing time by scrolling through social media having forgotten that she was still logged in. 

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How Creator Platforms Are Eroding Their Most Important Resource

Fixing how central they are to the platform’s content moderation could be the answer to its woes.

China has launched a three-year program to set up governance rules and systems for algorithms widely used by technology companies amid a broader clean-up of...

We can’t make social media safe for teenagers. So we should keep them off.