Filippo Menczer receives funding from Knight Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, DARPA and AFOSR. An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms – the rules its ...

Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. But it’s ...

The California State Court of Appeals reversed a decision made in 2020 that stated Facebook was protected from legal action under Section 230. Facebook can be sued over claims its advertising ...

New research published Thursday attempts to shed light on these questions. Four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the journals Science and Nature, are the first results of a long-awaited, repeatedly ...

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This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) (CN) — A study claiming Meta’s news feed algorithm ...

(CNN)Facebook-parent Meta is facing four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory, ...

In 2019, researchers at Facebook started creating fake accounts as part of an experiment to test how the social media app’s algorithm promoted disinformation and polarization. The result: Facebook ...

With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm, and they say it's punishing them. Reading time 5 minutes An apparent ...

Facebook is defending its decision in 2018 to make changes to its algorithm that may have made the platform's users more hostile toward each other, according to a new report. Three years ago, Facebook ...