You cannot control exactly what an algorithm serves you, but you can influence what it learns from your behavior. Reshaping ...

Do the posts you receive reflect what you actually value?

Can social media algorithms quietly shape the way people think about entire groups? This video explores the rise of ...

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 ...

There are few things more frustrating than feeling like an algorithm is controlling what you see online. Luckily, taking back ...

LinkedIn support accidentally revealed its algorithm: it tracks "viewer tolerance," reducing visibility for authors whose posts are consistently ignored. To succeed, diversify content types weekly, ...

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be "open-sourcing" Twitter's algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

Political parties might choose their election ads but increasingly it’s tech companies’ algorithms that decide who sees them.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...