Facebook’s algorithm 1 is its superpower — and its kryptonite. Yes, it leads to higher engagement that earns the company billions of dollars , but it’s also tied to some of the company’s ...

Just as Facebook’s algorithm rewarded shocking, useless news in the past year, it’s doing the same to Wish, an app now known for selling what its CEO calls ‘plastic tongue things.’ ...

Newsfeed recently shows only posts from the same few people, about 25, repeatedly the same, because Facebook has a new algorithm. Their system chooses the people to read Your post.

While the cause of the steep decrease in Facebook traffic to news sites during 2017 is less clear, it’s possible that the series of algorithm updates Facebook made during 2016 aimed at curbing ...

Facebook has developed a new algorithm to find and show high-quality content to users. To build the algorithm, Facebook surveyed thousands of people and put the results into a machine learning system.

In one experiment on Facebook’s algorithm, people’s knowledge of political news declined when their ability to reshare posts was removed, the researchers said. At the same time, ...

If Facebook’s algorithm does not detect text in photos as part of its filtering, this could be an easy way for right-leaning meme pages to bypass news feed demotion.

Facebook-parent Meta is the subject of four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory.

The Facebook algorithm wound up sending the ads to users it thought might fill those roles nicely. The audience for lumberjacks was 72 percent white and 90 percent male, ...

The algorithm is there to show you who Facebook thinks you are, but also to hide what Facebook knows it is: a little empty, a little sad; a place where a few voices get most of the attention, ...

Facebook’s race-blind practices around hate speech came at the expense of Black users, new documents show. Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted ...

Facebook-parent Meta is the subject of four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory.