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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The service on the Internet analyzes the information displayed to each user and "to display only the more preferred" means that the user is isolated from the specific information as "Filter bubbleI ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.

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 ...

A newly proposed bill would require large social media companies to give users the chance to opt out of algorithmically curated content. A bipartisan group of lawmakers want social media platforms to ...

This week I covered the big monthly Google webmaster report for December. Google may have done a big search algorithm update last Friday. Google launched their sticky rounded search bar last Friday ...