But TikTok showed that an algorithm, driven by the understanding of a user's interest, could be more powerful. Rather than building its algorithm on "social graph" like Meta has, TikTok executives ...

Twitter's algorithm appeared to identify whether a tweet was authored by Elon Musk and labeled tweets as "Democrat," "Republican" or "power user." ...

The future of TikTok's U.S. operations is uncertain after ByteDance, the app's owner, signed agreements to form a joint ...

TikTok is reportedly building a copy of its core recommendation algorithm in the US – an effort that is playing out even as the company tries to block a law requiring its China-based parent ByteDance ...

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent piece up today, putting YouTube’s video-recommendation engine under a microscope and trying to pull apart why the site seems to so often steer users toward, as ...

A new U.S.-based joint venture would keep TikTok online while handing oversight of its algorithm and data security to some of ...

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.

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

YouTube’s recommendations algorithm can lead you down some very weird rabbit holes, suggesting videos that feel weirdly personal and off-target at the same time ...