Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Wired magazine’s “spiritual advice columnist,” Meghan O’Ghieblyn, ...

Stop letting old downloads and random searches clutter your recommendations. Take control of your data to see the apps you actually want.

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

Facing a ban or forced sale after Congress cited national security concerns, the platform’s Chinese parent ByteDance continues to work on splitting off the underlying algorithm for its 170 million U.S ...

TikTok mixes up users' "For You" feeds so they won't get bored and close the app. Its solution was "forced recommendation in users' for u feed," per an internal document. TikTok has come under fire ...

The story of TikTok has always been complicated by its ownership. When its predecessor, lip-syncing app Musical.ly, broke through with children and teenagers in 2016, the New York Times noted it’s ...

TikTok is reportedly building a copy of its core recommendation algorithm in the US – an effort that is playing out even as the company tries to block a law requiring its China-based parent ByteDance ...

Elon Musk isn't a fan of X's algorithm, so he's documenting the company's efforts to improve the tech that decides what you see in the "For You" feed.