Among the 50 LEDAC priority bills are the anti-political dynasty bill and a measure that seeks to ban minors from social ...

The Three-Month Sprint was initially conceived as a two-part series. In the first part, I journeyed back to the formative ...

Why do algorithms keep showing us content we claim not to want? The answer isn’t manipulation—it’s conflict between our ...

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

On May 12-13, 2026, the digital landscape underwent a seismic shift as major social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube announced sweeping social media algorithm changes. These changes ...

Last fall, we featured an extensive interview with Petter Törnberg of the University of Amsterdam, who studies the underlying mechanisms of social media that give rise to its worst aspects: the ...

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a more user-friendly and efficient method to help networking engineers identify potential system failures before they cause major problems, like a ...

It is “easy to see why social media’s critics would hope for a tipping point akin to what happened with smoking,” says Sarah O’Connor. But the “story of smoking’s decline had a sting in the tail: many ...

Mikey Madison and Jeremy Allen White also star in Sony's follow-up to 'The Social Network.' By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter “A while back, we told a story about a college kid who built ...

Introducing filmmaker Sorkin, Sony Pictures executive Sanford Panitch called the sequel a “thriller” — a David vs. Goliath story that must contend with the hell Mark Zuckerberg hath wrought. The film ...

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...