AI-generated slop accounts for 21% of YouTube Shorts shown to new users. Here's what this means for marketers and where your content is most protected.

Curated on likes, messages and retention, social media exploits personal vulnerabilities to understand what will keep the user’s attention. This creates a deceptive representation of reality, and the ...

Social media platforms don't just distribute political content—they actively shape which arguments gain traction and which fade into algorithmic obscurity, creating a new mechanism of manufactured ...

To fix it, go to Settings > Manage all history. I find the offending videos and remove them. When they’re gone from your history, the algorithm no longer uses them to suggest what’s next. If your feed ...

Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting ...

The glitch was first flagged by premium users who were listening to YouTube Music on their Google Home and Nest devices, ...

Dear Algo! That’s it. Parents, kids, just give in. Talk to the algorithm. She knows what’s best. Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com.

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

YouTube has announced that all of its platforms are “are back to normal” after more than a quarter million users reported issues accessing the social media site. Around 350,000 users reported issues ...

Hundreds of thousands of YouTube users are reporting problems with the video sharing platform. More than 300,000 people reported having issues with YouTube as of 6:50 p.m. MT/ 7:50 p.m. CT on Tuesday, ...

View post: Cause of Death for 'Lil Jon's Son TikTok users in the U.S. reported feed and content issues over the weekend. Issues followed the creation of a separate U.S. TikTok entity, as ...