TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...

In just a few years, TikTok has gone from a niche lip-syncing app to one of the most powerful social media platforms in the world. From viral dance routines to comedic skits, food hacks, and global ...

YouTube’s recommendation engine briefly promoted a video featuring an AI-generated NSFW thumbnail to a wide array of users, including minors and those searching for unrelated content. The video, ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Meta has revealed its latest plans to improve Facebook's experience which will start with how its algorithm works, particularly as the company has revealed that it will incorporate user controls and ...

Meta announced on Tuesday a new Facebook algorithm update that will showcase more Reels videos tailored to users’ preferences. The update includes features that offer users greater control over the ...

Facebook's vice president of product, Jagjit Chawla, talks about how the platform treats AI-generated content and how you can see less of it. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial ...

“Being trapped on that mountain gave me a chance to see what I would regret if I died,” said journalist Alec Luhn Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP; Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Alec Luhn was ...

As he tumbled down a steep cliff in Norway, Alec Luhn knew his life was in danger. “I remember thinking, ‘This is really bad. This is the start of the disaster movie,’” Luhn said in an interview with ...