TikTok overrode its algorithm to boost views on the World Cup and Taylor Swift, a company exec said. TikTok's Jeff Louisma compared the practice to how Netflix promotes certain movies on its homepage.

Amazon changed its search algorithm in a way that could boost profits and sales of its own products, a new report from The Wall Street Journal has revealed. The e-commerce company reportedly made the ...

Elon Musk forced Twitter engineers to alter an algorithm to boost his tweets on users’ feeds, according to a report from Platformer. After a Sunday evening post expressing support for the Philadelphia ...

Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a tool that lets people see – and directly edit – the topics shaping their Reels recommendations. Why we care. This could reshape how users ...

TikTok has become a cesspool of conspiracy theories and misinformation as wildfires continue to devastate the Los Angeles region, and evidence suggests TikTok’s algorithm launched them into virality.