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 ...

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 ...

Disagreeing with this view, in a different take on recommendation algorithms, Clive Thompson (who also often writes for Wired) argues for “rewilding your attention”; he claims that acting out against ...

The popular recommendation mechanism of Douyin is essentially a multi-level content filtering system, where the core is to assess content value and popularity through data metrics. 1. Traffic Pool ...

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.

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.

Recommendation software can make the problem worse. Suggestion algorithms can exploit what customers are known to like by pushing similar fare, or they can encourage them to explore things they ...

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...

In a newly published preprint study, researchers propose a "fairer" product recommendation algorithm that's ostensibly less biased against certain shoppers.