Armed with a burner phone and a fake name, I set out to learn how Instagram’s algorithm really works. This is what happened next.

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The first line of defense against YouTube’s recommendations starts with its built-in feedback tools. The Not interested ...

Creators grew alarmed when educational videos that YouTube had allowed for years were suddenly being bizarrely flagged as “dangerous” or “harmful,” with seemingly no way to trigger human review to ...

Google’s Quantum Echoes now closes the loop: verification has become a measurable force, a resonance between consciousness and method. The many worlds seem to be bleeding together. Each observation is ...

It is said that the programmers of these video hosts have used the results of substantial research to fashion what’s called an ‘algorithm’ or a mathematical model, to predict which video I would most ...

I scrolled through the most dubious “advice” on social media to find the stuff that’ll actually make you a better runner.

I found that young people now form political beliefs through two competing knowledge systems: a hollowed-out university, and ...

One of the most common complaints I keep reading from YouTube Music users is that Google treats it and their regular YouTube experience as one and the same. If you like one artist’s songs, you’re now ...

It’s the second day of a shutdown of the federal government. We explain what’s happening. By Adam B. Kushner I’m the editor of this newsletter. For weeks, our D.C. reporters chronicled a slow-motion ...

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Having rapidly grown from startup to dominant pay-TV operator, YouTube TV now appears to be looking to level up again by incorporating partners’ streaming programming directly into its user interface.