In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

But the real question is: connected to what? Parker Woodroof, Ph.D., a social media expert and associate professor of marketing at the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at ...

When you visit a hospital, artificial intelligence (AI) models can assist doctors by analysing medical images or predicting patient outcomes based on historical data. If you apply for a job, AI ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. People’s daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn ...

The increasing use of algorithms to optimize pricing strategies has drawn the attention of competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic, who fear the technology can facilitate price fixing ...