Facebook’s algorithm 1 is its superpower — and its kryptonite. Yes, it leads to higher engagement that earns the company billions of dollars , but it’s also tied to some of the company’s ...

Just as Facebook’s algorithm rewarded shocking, useless news in the past year, it’s doing the same to Wish, an app now known for selling what its CEO calls ‘plastic tongue things.’ ...

In one experiment on Facebook’s algorithm, people’s knowledge of political news declined when their ability to reshare posts was removed, the researchers said. At the same time, ...

Facebook has developed a new algorithm to find and show high-quality content to users. To build the algorithm, Facebook surveyed thousands of people and put the results into a machine learning system.

Reaching customers and prospects on Facebook used to be a fairly straightforward proposition for small and medium-sized ...

Facebook-parent Meta is the subject of four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory.

Facebook has called the Top Stories section a small part of the overall news tab, while the rest has been handled by the algorithm. Facebook has said it will only show sources registered in its ...

In August 2023, Facebook users copied and pasted a boilerplate message into new posts about how to "bypass the system" to thwart an "algorithm" that purportedly "limits posts on your News Feed" to ...

U.S. Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds By . Naomi Nix, Carolyn Y. Johnson and Cat Zakrzewski ...

Facebook can be sued over biased ad algorithm, says court. An appeals court found that Section 230 doesn’t prevent Facebook from getting sued for allegedly having a discriminatory ad algorithm.