For the subset of users who understand the impact of the algorithms enough to try to appease them, the answer, then, is yes—that makes one boring; but the “that” is not the users’ predictability but ...

Mozilla led a 10-month investigation to try and uncover the workings of YouTube's recommendation algorithm - and found it is time for the platform to provide full transparency.

PhD researcher Megan Nyhan is the latest guest on For Tech’s Sake to help us understand the power of algorithms and recommendation engines.

In many cases, sites like YouTube have robust user tracking that feeds into recommendation algorithms. Activity from a random user signed into the same network might not have much of an influence.

Netflix’s content recommendation algorithm is superior to every other streaming service, and it’s not close. To be frank, I almost never look at recommended content rows. My eyes usually flit right ...

The unveiling of the algorithm comes after an unknown user posted portions of Twitter's source code to GitHub.

Internal documents suggest Facebook has long known its algorithms and recommendation systems push some users to extremes.