Nearly three years ago Meta announced it was partnering with more than a dozen independent researchers to study the impact Facebook and Instagram had on the 2020 election. Both Meta and the ...

It’s a common experience: you search for white bean soup recipes one time on Instagram, and you are bombarded with white bean soup content on the app for seemingly all eternity. Instagram wants to fix ...

Meta disputed findings released in four studies in academic journals examining Facebook and Instagram's impact on the 2020 election. NPR talks to UT-Austin professor Talia Stroud, a study co-author.

High school calculus is probably the last time you had to think about algorithms—if you’re lucky, that is. But for performers and content creators alike, there’s a new algorithm to worry about: ...

When Instagram launched Reels in 2020, the app was angling to compete with TikTok in the short-form video space – what it didn’t anticipate was the vast proliferation of aggregated content. As larger ...

A slate of research papers published Thursday suggest that the algorithms that drive Facebook and Instagram are not entirely to blame for those platform’s political polarization, as some previously ...

Does it ever feel like your social media feed just doesn’t get you? Or that it keeps leading your kids down unhealthy rabbit holes? You don’t have to put up with it anymore. Instagram has released a ...