What appears on a social media feed is rarely random. Behind every recommendation is an algorithm evaluating thousands of signals in real time. Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok each use different ...

YouTube star Casey Neistat says he no longer fully understands what drives success on the platform. Why it matters: AI recommendation systems are making YouTube feel less predictable, even for some of ...

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language ...

In a landmark decision, a California jury has awarded $3 million to a 20-year-old woman who claimed Meta’s Instagram and Google’s YouTube intentionally design their platforms to be addictive and ...

A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia Kang Ryan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from ...

Frustrated by YouTube feeding him Shorts and advertisements, PewDiePie set out to ‘fix’ the platform’s algorithm with his own AI. YouTube icon Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg famously trained his own AI ...

Developer Steven Irby built a web app that transforms YouTube into a cable TV-style guide, letting you flip through channels. When you pick a channel, you join whatever video is mid-play, recreating ...

The industries that design, construct and maintain our built world are facing a workforce crisis that’s very real and very immediate. Whether concrete specialists, HVAC technicians, surveyors, ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

YouTube is a key tool in recruiting far-right activists to the largest British fascist group Patriotic Alternative (PA), according to new research. Dr. Tony Karas, Research Fellow in Criminology at ...

He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. He open-sourced Twitter’s algorithm back in 2023, but then never updated the GitHub. is the Verge’s weekend editor.