Research conducted at the height of the 2020 election reveals new details about how Facebook's algorithms handle political content. But it... New study shows just how Facebook's algorithm shapes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Check (MBFC) and shared at least 100 times, whereas Guess et al. consider any post by users with two or The UMass Amherst-led team’s work shows that the Meta-funded research was conducted during a ...
A Facebook algorithm change may have helped boost visibility and engagement to county-level Republican parties across the United States starting in 2018, according to new research by Miami University ...
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 ...
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 ...
Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...