New Study Shows This Social Platform Can Shift Your Politics To The Right — And It Happens Very Fast

That’s the key takeaway from a new study published in the scientific journal Nature this month that examines the platform’s ...
College of Computing - Georgia Tech

New Study Could Show How TikTok’s Algorithm Affects Youth Mental Health

A new study led by Georgia Tech might confirm this suspicion. Using recently acquired data from more than 10,000 adolescent ...
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Algorithm used to flag high-risk veterans lost effectiveness, study reveals

A new study of Veterans Health Administration data shows that the Care Assessment Needs (CAN) algorithm — a tool used to predict whether veterans will be hospitalized or die in the 90 days after their ...
Purdue University

Study to develop algorithms for detecting earliest signs of COVID-19 from biometric smartwatch data

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Certain changes in a person’s heart and breathing rates could precede symptoms of COVID-19, an increasing number of studies suggests. Purdue University researchers have begun a ...

X’s Algorithm Makes Users More Conservative, Study Suggests

The effect was caused by a switch from a chronological to an algorithmic feed ...
Engadget

Twitter will study ‘unintentional harms’ caused by its algorithms

Twitter announced a new plan to study the fairness of its algorithms. As part of the effort, which the company has dubbed the “Responsible Machine learning Initiative,” data scientists and engineers ...
LAist

New study shows just how Facebook's algorithm shapes conservative and liberal bubbles

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Is Facebook exacerbating America's ...