digital technologies

A new study casts doubt on the most prominent theories about extremism-by-algorithm.

A new study suggests what we’ve suspected for years is right: YouTube is a pipeline for extremism and hate. How do we know that? More than 330,000 videos on nearly 350 YouTube channels were analyzed and manually classified according to a system designed by the Anti-Defamation League. They were labeled as either media (or what…

In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.

It’s unlikely that you’ll be watching kitten videos one day and believing in QAnon the next.

The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest.

US lawmakers keep warning about the popular app. But until they can explain what makes it uniquely dangerous, it’s difficult to tailor a resolution.

QAnonAnonymous did this with TikTok - created a new account and started fresh. Took like... three days of liking alternative medicine/new-age/spiritualism content before they started getting recommended QAnon. P.S. - for anyone not familiar, QAA is not a QAnon-positive podcast. They talk about the stuff QANON does/believes. Timeline shifting, manifestation, secret codes and escaping the matrix. Gen Z is entertaining all kinds of new ideas on "spiritual" or "new age" TikTok. Liv creates a fresh account, feeds it a single

Twitter’s own research has found that the news feed amplifies right-wing political content more than left-leaning.

Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds