A controversy is swirling at a Texas university. The trigger? A flowchart. On Dec. 1, the new chancellor of the Texas Tech University system sent professors a diagram laying out a chain of approval ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...

ONCE YOU start using TikTok, good luck taking your eyes off it. The same goes for the saga of the Chinese app’s American misadventures. Unlike TikTok’s irresistible short videos, this has dragged on ...

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, raised concerns Wednesday about the ongoing reliance of a potential TikTok spinoff on an algorithm ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...

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Billboard has published its World Albums chart for the week ending on April 26! ZEROBASEONE’s new mini album “BLUE PARADISE,” which debuted at No. 1 last week, stayed strong at No. 2 in its second ...