Ethiopia is home to more than eighty ethnic communities, each with its own distinct dance tradition. For most people outside Ethiopian communities and the diaspora, these forms have historically ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

A large-scale experiment tested the impact of changing the Bluesky feed-ranking algorithm on political content and perceptions during the 2024 US presidential election. By making feeds more ...

On May 12-13, 2026, the digital landscape underwent a seismic shift as major social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube announced sweeping social media algorithm changes. These changes ...

Addis Ababa, May 7, 2026 —Leaders of Ethiopia’s major public media institutions have praised the government’s reform agenda, saying it has helped resolve long-standing structural challenges and ...

The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power. For 30 years, journalists have ridden a merry-go-round reporting on its stunts and inflammatory rhetoric, while ...

In an effort to prioritize the flow of original content, Instagram has altered its core recommendations algorithm -- extending its originality guidelines to discourage aggregators from reposting ...

Social media algorithms are controlling how we communicate and interact, and their influence is only getting stronger. What once felt like a tool for connection has turned into a system that shapes ...

SPRINGFIELD — A bill to regulate social media companies and the features they make available to minors is advancing in the Statehouse. A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House voted 82-27 to pass ...

The Illinois House voted on bipartisan lines to pass the Children’s Social Media Safety Act. The bill is designed to limit children’s access to social media algorithms that the courts have ruled and ...

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 ...