In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

The EU is threatening to take action against the social media company. It could be the start of a global reckoning. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is CNET's ...

Brent Buchanan is the Founder & CEO of Cygnal, recognized as America’s most accurate private pollster for four consecutive election cycles, and author of “America’s Emotional Divide.” Ninety-one ...

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...

LinkedIn's algorithm has changed, making old tactics obsolete. Align your profile with content topics. Prioritize "saves" as the key engagement metric by creating valuable, referenceable content. Post ...

Elon Musk says social platform X will open-source a new recommendation algorithm within seven days, exposing all code behind organic and ad post suggestions and updating it every four weeks with ...