Originally designed to drive revenue on social media platforms, recommendation algorithms are now making it easier to promote extreme content. Addressing this problem will require more than a ...

Social media algorithms have received much blame for encouraging political polarization nationwide but solutions to the issue have proven elusive. A new op-ed in Wired suggests a novel approach to ...

The idea echoes Haugen’s own suggestion. Both Lindsay and Haugen say companies such as Facebook would respond by abandoning their recommendation algorithms and reverting to feeds that simply show ...