The National Bureau of Economic Research has published a new working paper by economists Ali Shourideh (Carnegie Mellon ...
Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the ...
Recently, the Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh governments decided to ban social media for children under 16 and 13 respectively ...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm

"Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes." This study shows that some do - to significant effect.
That’s the key takeaway from a new study published in the scientific journal Nature this month that examines the platform’s ...
A new study of Veterans Health Administration data shows that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) algorithm — a tool used to predict whether veterans will be hospitalized or die in the 90 days after their ...
A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...
A team of researchers from Atlanta-based Georgia Institute of Technology introduced an open-source algorithm Oct. 26 that predicts a cancer drug’s effectiveness based on a patient’s genetic data. The ...