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The Mozilla Foundation found that the dislike button doesn't affect YouTube recommendations by more than 11 percent.

A new study found that 'Dislike,' 'Not interested' buttons largely fail to stop spam.

For YouTube viewers dissatisfied with the videos the platform has recommended to them, pressing the “dislike” button may not make a big difference, according to a new research report. YouTube has said users have numerous ways to indicate that they disapprove of content and do not want to watch similar videos. But all of those controls are relatively ineffective, researchers at

Data mining plus streaming can target political ads household by household, largely unregulated.

Disinformation: Kenya’s election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections. 

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The Federalist reports that the New York Times actually asked TikTok, the social media app famous for being tied to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as getting people injured or maimed [...]

New technology meant to detect cheating by students taking tests at home could invade privacy, increase anxiety and be discriminatory

Web browsers were at the center of the first major antitrust case challenging the power of big tech companies more than two decades ago. Now a new generation of regulators and rivals are again questioning whether the gateways to the internet are too tightly controlled.

A survey conducted by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation found that most apps devoted to reproductive health lack clear law enforcement policies regarding user data.