Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter’s recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...

"If you randomly follow the algorithm, you probably would consume less radical content using YouTube as you typically do!" So says Manoel Ribeiro, co-author of a new paper on YouTube's recommendation ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.

Threads users have been complaining about its recommendation algorithm pretty much since the beginning of the platform. At ...

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.

These days, so much of what we see online is delivered by social media algorithms. The operations of these algorithms are opaque to us; commentators forever speculate as to whether they just show us ...

New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithms like personalized searches, recommendation systems, and AI-powered curation can make us more isolated and polarized, or ...

YouTube’s recommendation engine failed on February 17, 2026, stranding hundreds of thousands of users on blank, unresponsive ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. There are three main stages in Home Mixer, the service that builds a user's "For You" feed, ...