Feb. 6 (UPI) --European Union regulators said Friday that TikTok may be in violation of the Digital Services Act due to the risk it poses for addictive and compulsive behavior. The European Commission ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

Long before social media feeds or targeted ads, my mother used to say that life tends to show you the thing you're looking for. Or the thing you're afraid of. Or the thing you keep insisting you don't ...

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In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social media platform X has open-sourced its Grok-based transformer model, which ranks For You feed posts by predicting user ...

Right after Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Sept. 10, 2025, the internet started showing me his videos. This was, initially, disappointing. After a decade of companionship, I had hoped my phone would ...

Meta has now rolled out the "Build Your 2026 Algorithm" feature for Instagram Reels to allow users use it to personalize their feeds. Instagram Reels 'Build Your 2026 Algorithm' Now Live After a test ...

TL;DR: Elon Musk says the algorithm that determines what appears in each user's X feed will be made public within a week – a move he claims will bring transparency to the platform's inner workings.

Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days. “This will be ...

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine ...