See how data and algorithms influence fashion trends on social media, turning TikTok fashion and Instagram style trends into ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

(top) Distribution of impressions per euro among the ads of each party. An orange X indicates the mean of the distribution. (bottom) Difference between the average impressions per euro of a party and ...

Social media power has become a leadership infrastructure—reshaping power, authority, and clarity inside organizations faster ...

Everyone seems to agree that social media has become a cesspit, with cancel-culture mobs enforcing ideological purity on one side and trolls spreading conspiracy theories on the other. X and Facebook ...

TikTok is a global short-form video platform that allows users to create and watch videos typically lasting from a few ...

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy money. So confirms a pioneering study by Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), which ...

Are we only seeing the kind of news we want to see on social media? What effects do personalized algorithms have on our perception of news quality? Do algorithms help us serendipitously encounter ...

Foreign influence campaigns, or information operations, have been widespread in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Influence campaigns are large-scale efforts to shift public opinion, ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A pair of Utah lawmakers in Washington are pushing to amend a nearly 30-year-old law governing online communications to hold technology companies accountable for harms caused by ...

An assistant professor at U.K. discusses how social media influences politics. If you've been on social media lately, you likely noticed an increasing number of political ads. Christie Dutton talks ...

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