French authorities raided X’s Paris office this week as part of a criminal probe into the platform’s alleged “biased algorithms.” X owner Elon Musk denounced the police action as a “political attack.” ...

To help fight breast cancer, a public-health expert recruited the spies whose top-secret work helped find hidden Russian missile bases.

As Keir Starmer presses on with plans to ban under-16s from social media, Terina Hine looks at the implications We are told increasing numbers of young people are suffering from mental and physical ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

Turning on the "For You" algorithm on X (formerly Twitter) may shift users' political opinions toward more conservative views, suggests research involving nearly 5,000 X users. These effects are shown ...

Elites may not be as immune to this kind of algorithmic radicalization as they think.

The cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor's office on Tuesday launched a search of the French offices of social media platform X. The raid was connected to an ongoing investigation launched in ...

The investigation began in January 2025 after a lawmaker contacted prosecutors with allegations that biased algorithms on X were potentially distorting the operation of an automated data processing ...

After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk has turned the social media platform into a different beast. First, he rebranded it to X, and then, algorithm updates every few weeks became a constant. Musk ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

Name, image and likeness (NIL) deals have flooded college sports with hundreds of millions of dollars — but universities and team general managers have been operating with little formal oversight, ...