Opinion

The TikTok Deal Is Awful

The app itself still faces an uncertain future—one that might result in a platform that is far more right-leaning, more hostile, and less secure.
TL;DR: Elon Musk announced that X, formerly Twitter, will launch a new open-source algorithm within seven days, revealing the code behind content recommendations for organic and advertising posts.
Nintendo has said it was unwilling to backtrack on the design of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond's controversial open world hub despite seeing "changed" attitudes to open-world games, as the project had ...
King Charles III is reportedly regretting punishing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Hot tub photo fuels firestorm 'Massive betrayal': Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison treatment ...
Earlier this month, LG TV users started reporting that an icon for Microsoft’s AI assistant Copilot was popping up on their screens without prior notice. While at first it was unremovable, LG later ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Daily Mail columnist Ephraim Hardcastle, King Charles III is "gently backtracking" and "regretting" Andrew ...
Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation systems to deliver personalized recommendations. Pixabay, TungArt7 From movie ...
BEIJING, Dec ‌20 (Reuters) - The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short ‌video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the app's Chinese owner ByteDance ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kelley Cotter, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed ...
One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...