Recommendation algorithms promise social media users a personalized experience, but some experts worry they promote doomscrolling, brain rot, and myriad mental health problems. Australia recently ...

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We live in algorithmic times. Algorithmic systems, content and infrastructures that underpin artificial intelligence (AI) now impact education systems across the world. The title of this volume is a ...

Draft laws would create an opt-out system to turn off algorithms on social media platforms. The bill would also make social media companies responsible for minimising and preventing harm on their ...

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For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

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A merchant vessel transports decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships through the Arabian Gulf. (MC2 Iain Page/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy decommissioned half of its Avenger-class ...

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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 ...