In a move that will please some of Instagram’s critics, the company will now allow users to reset the recommendation system that powers what they see in their feeds.For years now, Instagram has ...

Twitter recently open-sourced several components of their system for recommending tweets for a user's Twitter timeline. The release includes the code for several of the services and jobs that run the ...

Instagram’s ranking algorithm has long been scrutinized by users. In a blog post, the company lays out what kind of data it pulls in to decide what content to serve up.

In March 2023 Twitter, now called X, publicized its recommendation algorithm on GitHub, along with an explanation of how the system works: for content to appear in a person’s timeline, the best ...

This week, recommendation algorithms were front and center at the Supreme Court. The Court heard a pair of cases: Gonzalez V. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh, Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively ...

Hitting Dislike, the most visible way to provide negative feedback, stops only 12% of bad recommendations; Not interested stops just 11%. YouTube advertises both options as ways to tune its algorithm.

Instagram’s updated algorithm prioritizes original content instead of rip-offs. Aggregator accounts sharing reposted content are going to be removed from Instagram’s recommendations.

Instagram users will soon be able to manually reset the recommendation algorithm that determines what they see in their feeds. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook parent Meta Platforms, said in ...

TikTok's algorithm is a system that decides what content will be displayed on each user’s For You Page—it's a recommendation system for each user, in other words.

The justices will seek to determine whether online platforms should be held accountable when their recommendation systems, operating in ways that users can’t see or understand, aid terrorists by ...