Facebook’s 2026 algorithm updates merge an AI-powered discovery engine with a revived friends-only tab, shifting feed content toward both personalized recommendations and closer social connections.

A trial beginning in New Mexico on Monday could prompt a judge to order sweeping changes to how Facebook, Instagram and ...

Instagram has altered its core recommendations algorithm, extending its originality guidelines to discourage aggregators from reposting others' content across a wider variety of display formats.

Don't let Google snoop on your conversations or scoop up personal information when you use Gemini. Here's how to protect ...

The added phrases are often Gen Z slang. Meta says it is investigating. Have you seen Facebook add text that you didn't write ...

This story is part of the Iconic Brands series, a USA TODAY network project showcasing the companies and brands that helped shape the nation's identity, economy and culture. The series celebrates ...

Twenty-two years after Facebook launched for college students, those innocent days—when social media meant sharing pet photos ...

Ebro Says Booking Guests Is Harder Without Hot 97: 'People Are Acting Different' Ebro opens up about the challenges of booking guests in the digital era, saying artists and longtime contacts “act ...

Affiliate and former BKC Fellow Dylan Moses asks how far the "potential" to invoke violence or harm can take us in regulating online prank content. Moses writes that aggressive and confrontational ...

A jury in California agreed with a plaintiff who argued that Meta and Google, two social-media giants, designed their platforms to be addictive. That opens the floodgates to more litigation and ...

Even if you don’t know much about the inner workings of generative AI models, you probably know they need a lot of memory. Hence, it is currently almost impossible to buy a measly stick of RAM without ...

President Trump has had differing statements on the Iran war and the end goal. And his administration’s talking points have often shifted in real-time, with the U.S. war aims a constantly moving ...