A new study from Northwestern University and the University of Chicago offers underlying evidence that the engagement-based ...

Meta quietly launched a new Forum app on iOS yesterday. It’s a new way to access Facebook Groups, one of the most popular Facebook features. Forum also aims to provide a better Groups experience than ...

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Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature to its Teen Accounts that shows parents the “general topics their teens engage ...

As of May 2026, the social media landscape has fractured into three parallel distribution systems on Facebook, each with its own ranking logic, while niche platforms are rewarding hyper-specific ...

A trial beginning in New Mexico on Monday could prompt a judge to order sweeping changes to how Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp operate - a move Meta Platforms has warned could ​force it to withdraw ...

Gothenburg promised to optimise school admissions with a piece of code. The resulting chaos showed how unaccountable systems are ruining lives We like to imagine that injustice announces itself loudly ...

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In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...