Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An executive from Chinese social media giant ByteDance played down the role of its content-recommendation algorithms in creating ...

Facebook's algorithm sucks, and Congress wants to do something about it. A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pushing forward what it's titled the "Filter Bubble Transparency Act." Axios got a copy of ...

There’s something broken about much of social media. While the number of users increases at an astronomical rate, and there’s no denying its power when it comes to disseminating messages and ...

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced legislation that would give people more control over the algorithms that shape their online experience. If passed ...

Since launching in the United States five years ago, SmartNews, the news aggregation app that recently hit unicorn status, has quietly built a reputation for presenting reliable information from a ...

Social media bubbles follow us around, and are not easy to pop. Credit: Mashable composite: Getty / Hill Street Studios / DigitalVisionGetty / SDI Productions / E+ Mashable’s series Algorithms ...

Platforms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are technological black boxes: Researchers know what information goes in and can measure what comes out, but the algorithms that curate results are ...

Editor’s Note: Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, is the Senate minority whip. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN. The one thing we ...

We are all immersed in an incomprehensible abundance of available information, and we can only read or watch or consume some meaningless fraction of it. What we see, and what we don’t see, is heavily ...

Occasionally I take a quick look at where the traffic to my articles comes from. (“Quick” since content ultimately get broad play because people like and share it; if you’re in the content business, ...