Social media needs a reset button

Mark Bartholomew is the vice dean for research at the University at Buffalo School of Law. Martin Skladany is a law professor ...
Grit Daily

Navigating Social Media Algorithms: Lessons Learned & Strategies for Success

The biggest lesson I’ve learned about working with social media algorithms is that you can’t chase the system; you have to ...

The 2026 State of Reading Report: Human Recommendations Surpass Algorithms in the AI Era

-- Half (49 percent) read between 6--15 books per year, and Fable readers finished an average of 20. -- 55 percent increase year-over-year (YOY) in users who have already met their 2025 reading goal ...
Cronkite News

Kelly bill would allow lawsuits over social media algorithms that promote violence, extremism

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers have struggled to tamp down online misinformation and extremism. The latest effort, from Sens. Mark ...

Social media algorithms target lower-income youth with risky 'easy money' ads, study shows

Young people with fewer financial resources, especially boys, are the most exposed to advertising about how to make easy ...
NBC News

Algorithms Learn From Us, and We Can Be Better Teachers

Until a few years ago, computers couldn’t tell the difference between images of dogs and ones of cats. Today, computer programs use machine-learning algorithms to study piles of data and learn about ...
NPR

Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom To Hire, Based On Voice

If you're trying out for a job in sales, the person who judges your pitch may not be a person — it could be a computer. Job recruitment is the newest frontier in automated labor, where algorithms ...
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Prices Set by Algorithms: New Yorkers Now See Warnings About Stores Using Personal Data to Set Costs

This new law, already subject to lawsuits, lets shoppers know when companies are quietly raising online prices for certain ...