When it comes to recommendation systems, everybody's looking to increase accuracy: the Netflix Prize was awarded last July for an algorithm that improved the accuracy of the service's ...

At the end of the day, underneath all the algorithms are people. And we influence the algorithms just as much as they may influence us.

YouTube’s recommendations algorithm can lead you down some very weird rabbit holes, suggesting videos that feel weirdly personal and off-target at the same time. Today, Mozilla will introduce a ...

How social media recommendation algorithms help spread hate It's getting so bad that even Congress is starting to pay attention.

Instagram is overhauling its recommendation algorithm for Reels to boost “original content” in a move that will have significant implications for aggregator accounts and others that primarily ...

YouTube’s recommendation algorithm has always been key to keeping users on the site. Watch a cute cat video, and the platform spews countless more of the same.

Mozilla just launched a site featuring 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation algorithm served bizarre and horrifying videos the users had shown no ...

Lawmakers have frequently criticized social media giants for using recommendation algorithms to boost user engagement, but so far, there’s been little legislative action to curb their use.

In a new experiment, Spotify will add the input of artists and labels to its personalized-recommendation algorithm.

Engineer Ari Vaniderstine tweeted a link to a Glitch project called Nelson this morning, a browser application that lets Spotify users fiddle with various inputs in the recommendation API and make ...

Having established my music taste is terrible, I’m intrigued as to what my other leisure time pursuits reveal about me, according to recommendation algorithms.