Reddit shares jumped over 12% on Friday after an upbeat quarterly revenue forecast underscored growing returns from the social media compan...

Meta Platforms experienced a slight decline of 20 million daily active users across its social media platforms in Q1 CY 2026, marking a bre...

Australia is gearing up to implement a groundbreaking levy on major tech giants. If platforms like Meta, Google, and TikTok fail to compens...

Security agencies are utilizing open-source intelligence from public sources like social media for information gathering, assuring no priva...

Algorithms used by social media companies may not be as polarising to society as previously thought, according to a study published in Natu...

Algorithms controlling a social media user's feed, while largely opaque, may not be polarising the society in the same ways as the public t...

Meta-owned Facebook has handed US users the controls over fact-checked content, in a potentially significant move that the platform says wi...

A "bug" in Facebook's News Feed injected a "rush of misinformation" and other dangerous content between October and March

Facebook disputed the report, saying that it "vastly overstated".

While algorithms have long had a bad rap, they are simply lines of code. The real problem is how social media companies use them to keep us...

Facebook said it also demotes content from news publishers that users rate as untrusted in surveys and content posted by pages or accounts ...

Facebook's News Feed, which comprises posts from friends and businesses, is the first thing users see when they open their account on the m...

Facebook in recent months has been de-emphasizing political content which tends to be more polarizing and moving to give users more control...

The improvement in prevalence is mainly due to changes Facebook made for reducing problematic content in News Feed, Vice President (integri...

Stories and clips that draw comments and likes or are shared by users are more likely to be seen

The definition of clickbait is important here. Facebook's is currently narrow: To be considered clickbait, a headline needs to withhold inf...

With the new update launching today, Facebook is going to start ranking viral posts lower, if they are not interesting enough.