UNSW AI Institute Chief Professor Toby Walsh says AI bots are actively trying to influence social media users by “manipulating the algorithm”.

Sen. Erin Grall, who voted against the bill along with Sen. Don Gaetz, wanted stronger parental controls and pushed to ...

The Dáíl has this morning debated the Online Safety (Recommender Algorithms) Bill 2026. People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy said the bill would "turn off toxic social media algorithms". Mr Murphy said ...

Curated on likes, messages and retention, social media exploits personal vulnerabilities to understand what will keep the user’s attention. This creates a deceptive representation of reality, and the ...

It takes only a few weeks for X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to nudge users’ political views to the right. That’s ...

House Bill 4248, co-sponsored by Reps. Kam Buckner, D-Chicago, and Maura Hirschauer, D-Batavia, would require corporations to ...

Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., sponsored the Senate privacy bill, which is known as the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act or COPPA 2.0, for its updates to the 1998 data protection law ...

A new study shows X's algorithm can nudge users' political views as online platforms remain a key part of broader election discourse.

An analysis of 1,000 profiles shows that most of the images follow very similar patterns, blending individual preferences and social conventions. Age ...

The UK government is working on a controversial data bill that would allow AI companies like Google and OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted materials without consent. However, following a two ...