In recent weeks, everything from Hollywood stars, Confederate statues and canned beans has been in the crosshairs. But while much of the outrage has been driven by legitimate groups, experts say ...

This week’s Congressional testimony by whistleblower Frances Haugen drove home an important message: Facebook is actively harming millions, perhaps billions, of users around the world with a host of ...

There are various indications, including from the company itself, that Google is getting ready to launch an update to its search algorithm. The company announced this summer that a new algorithm ...

The history of the social sciences has included a succession of advances in the ability to make observations and carefully test hypotheses. The compilation of massive data sets, for example, and the ...

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Every so often, Google will make a subtle or not-so-subtle change in its search algorithm, the sort of thing that not only changes what results come up, but can seriously disrupt the business models ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last Tuesday, as the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments in key cases that ...

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine ...

The duel is age-old: on one side, cold, methodical and exhaustive ‘calculation’; on the other, the decision-maker’s dazzling intuition, that often indefinable ‘flair’. Since the advent of Big Data ...