Opinion Facebook serves as an echo chamber, especially for conservatives. Blame its algorithm. October 26, 2020 More than 4 years ago (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) By Steven L. Johnson , ...

Facebook has updated its hate speech algorithm, reversing years of neutrality to prioritize anti-black comments while making anti-white slurs the lowest priority.

Facebook is finally being forced to open up its algorithm Sudden changes in Facebook's most popular posts sparked fresh scrutiny in social media companies' "black box" algorithms ...

When Facebook proposed a new news feed algorithm in 2017, its algorithmic bias audit showed that conservative news outlets would be significantly more affected than other news outlets.

Facebook is overhauling its algorithms for removing hate speech, The Washington Post reports, because policies it thought were race-blind were upsetting a lot of black users and employees. Specific… ...

The new "Recent" tab on the News Feed lets you see posts as they come in, in chronological order, minus algorithm trickery.

Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth Employees and executives are battling over how to reduce misinformation and hate speech without hurting the company’s bottom line.

Meanwhile, Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has decided to allow political ads claiming the 2020 election was rigged, according to new reports.

Facebook confirmed that it has in the past few days rolled back a change that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources after November’s election, signaling a return to ...