One in three people believe they don't have to seek the news from traditional outlets like newspapers and television. Instead ...

Scroll through social media long enough and a pattern emerges. Pause on a post questioning climate change or taking a hard line on a political issue, and the platform is quick to respond—serving up ...

A flurry of new schemes to launch Europe-based social networks faces a steep, rocky road to seduce users away from American ...

Human social learning is increasingly occurring on online social platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok. On these platforms, algorithms exploit existing social-learning biases (i.e., towards ...

But a new category of technology platforms – known as SocialFi – aims to change that dynamic by integrating financial tools directly into social networks.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has just signed two bills into law that ban social media companies from using algorithms to select what content young people see. The SAFE for Kids Act requires social ...

Elon Musk said Jack Dorsey was right about social media algorithms. On Wednesday, Musk highlighted a video of Dorsey talking about the free speech debate. Dorsey envisioned “a marketplace of ...