She called Facebook’s algorithms dangerous, said Facebook executives were aware of the threat but put profits before people, and called on Congress to regulate the company.

Mark Zuckerberg disingenuously poses as a friendly critic of algorithms. That’s how he implicitly contrasts Facebook with his rivals across the way at Google. Over in Larry Page’s shop, the ...

Former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. Senate on Oct. 5, 2021, that the company’s social media platforms “ harm children, stoke division and weaken our ...

For billions of people around the world, Facebook can be a source for cute baby pictures, vaccine misinformation and everything in between — and all of it surfaces in our feeds with the help of ...

Did the Facebook algorithm change? The simple answer is yes, because the algorithms that determine the content you see on your social media platforms are constantly evolving.

Meta — the parent company of Instagram and Facebook — has been fueling what the U.S. surgeon general calls “a national youth mental health crisis.” Features like curated algorithms ...

Haugen alleges that Facebook knew its algorithm was funneling teens towards harmful content but refused to take steps to stop it, and that it disbanded the Civic Integrity team shortly after the ...

And Zuckerberg knows it. "Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness," warned a 2018 internal Facebook study, unearthed by the Wall Street Journal.

I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too Making your News Feed chronological is an enlightening look at what's really happening on the platform.

Facebook’s oversight board is meant to take on the platform’s toughest content decisions. Should that include its algorithms?