TikTok overrode its algorithm to boost views on the World Cup and Taylor Swift, a company exec said. TikTok's Jeff Louisma compared the practice to how Netflix promotes certain movies on its homepage.

Elon Musk forced Twitter engineers to alter an algorithm to boost his tweets on users’ feeds, according to a report from Platformer. After a Sunday evening post expressing support for the Philadelphia ...

The tech billionaire was upset that his Super Bowl tweet dropped the ball compared with one from President Biden, according to Platformer. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a tool that lets people see – and directly edit – the topics shaping their Reels recommendations. Why we care. This could reshape how users ...

What can you do if Twitter fails to prioritize your tweets as much as you’d like it to? Well, if you happen to own the social media platform, you could simply get someone to make a few phone calls to ...

TikTok has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and misinformation as wildfires continue to devastate the Los Angeles region, and evidence suggests TikTok’s algorithm launched them into virality.