Search and social media algorithms can produce strange results for their users — but fiddling with them can produce strange results from their users. In both cases the results may be too important to ...
Twitter's algorithm appeared to identify whether a tweet was authored by Elon Musk and labeled tweets as "Democrat," "Republican" or "power user." ...
If your feed regularly surfaces 45-minute breakdowns of art history or two-hour explorations of urban planning, congratulations. You've trained your algorithm to believe you have an attention span. In ...