A Colorado teenager is sounding the alarm on social media’s impact on young girls after surveying more than 1,000 peers nationwide and finding strong links between platform use and rising rates of ...

March 20, 2026 - For years, businesses have used algorithms to set prices across a variety of markets. Increased adoption and sophistication as a result of large data sets and advances in machine ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Amid the escalating conflict between the United States and Iran, the State Department has been issuing travel alerts to ...

In mid-2023, around the time Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as X but before he discontinued free academic access to the platform’s data, my colleagues and I looked for signs of social bot accounts ...

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

“Next Level Chef” is back for Season 5, and that means a whole new batch of contestants. So, who’s competing this year? Gordon Ramsay, Nyesha Arrington and Richard Blais are returning as mentors to 24 ...

After a few years of relatively stagnant viewership in and around the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Super Bowl has reclaimed its status as a perennially record-setting television event. The 2025 ...

Social media algorithms determine what billions of users see daily, yet most creators barely scratch the surface of how they operate. Platforms prioritize content ranking using engagement metrics, ...