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Users called the results "horrifying," "mad" and "very weird." Many people tagged Google, demanding an explanation.

New research shows that Big Tech companies are manipulating the online experiences of millions of Americans in ways unknown before.

Google May Send Republicans to Spam, but We're Holding Big Tech Accountable Big Tech has an outsized ability to shape our online experiences By Sen. John Thune Fox News Today’s debates around Big Tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, or Google, among others, typically center around the ability that these platforms have to shape social media…

A spate of new laws in Europe and the U.S. foreshadow what could be the end of dominance for Google, Facebook and Amazon

Instagram today is making a chronological feed available to all users, as earlier promised, alongside another new feed-filtering option that will allow you to scroll through posts from your favorite accounts. The features had been launched into limited testing starting in January but will now reach Instagram’s global user base by the end of the […]

Twitter is preparing the app before it pushes for 100 million new users by the end of 2023. On Feb. 10, Twitter updated its app to make it easier for users to switch between the algorithmically programmed Home timeline and the feed that displays the "Latest" tweets.

Twitter today is updating its app to make it easier to switch between the algorithmically programmed Home timeline and the feed that displays the “Latest” tweets. Typically, when users want to move between timelines, they have to tap the “sparkle” icon in the top-right of the screen, then do so again to switch back. But […]

Last year, former Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaked a trove of internal company documents, which illuminated just how harmful apps like Instagram can be for teens. These bombshell revelations sparked five Senate subcommittee hearings on children’s internet safety, featuring testimony from executives at TikTok, Snap, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook. As a result of these hearings, […]

Meta, the new name adopted by Facebook in a recent rebrand, spent more money on lobbying in 2021 than any prior year.

Instagram is making good on the promise it made last month to bring back the chronological feed. In a tweet Wednesday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that the platform is rolling out some big changes to the way the core feed experience works, letting users choose between three different feeds. Two new options, Favorites and […]