The Irish Times

Committee stops short of under-16 social media ban but wants end to ‘harmful’ algorithms

An Oireachtas Committee has stopped short of recommending a ban on social media for under-16s but has said “harmful” social media recommender algorithms should be turned off and there should be a ban ...
Irish Examiner

Oireachtas committee calls for limits on social media algorithms instead of under-16 ban

Committee urges stronger regulation of algorithms, AI, and online harms instead of an outright social media ban for teenagers The committee also called for a ban on 'infinite scroll' features on ...
Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
NME

Lizzo hits out at “racist and fatphobic” algorithms for “destroying the music industry” and her album promo

On Tuesday (May 12), she posted a video to TikTok in which she outlined her problems with the way that changes in social media algorithms have made promoting the album more challenging. “The algorithm ...