Mr. Murphy is the junior senator from Connecticut. Kids are even more in the bag of social media companies than we think. So many of them have ceded their online autonomy so fully to their phones that ...

New York’s Legislature passed a bill on Friday that would ban social media platforms from using "addictive" recommendation algorithms for child users. It’s expected that Gov. Kathy Hochul will sign ...

What’s happened? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users more control over the type of content they see on the platform. Why is this important? Instagram’s algorithm plays a major role in ...

Educators, parents and researchers agree social media is highly addicting, and if algorithm-based posts are not driving the mental health crisis plaguing kids, they're at least riding shotgun. But the ...

In early July, YouTube made a significant change to its software to boost what it deems “quality” children’s content, sending waves of traffic to certain video producers and burying other channels.

Big changes are coming for New York’s youngest social media users after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two bills into law Thursday clamping down on digital platforms’ algorithms and use of children’s data.

Information firehose: The standard practice for teaching a machine-learning algorithm is to give it all the details at once. Say you’re building an image classification system to recognize different ...