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YouTube’s recommendation algorithm pushed more videos about election fraud to people who were already skeptical about the 2020 election’s legitimacy, according to a new study.

Entities Abuse Algorithms to Manipulate Elections. It’s not so much the algorithms as it is about the entities abusing them. What happened in Romania is a prime example of the dangers social media ...

A study found TikTok's algorithm recommended more Republican-aligned content during the 2024 US election. Republican accounts saw more like-minded content, while Democratic accounts were shown more ...

The tools of political campaigning have evolved faster than the responsibilities of representation. Today’s candidates can ...

Election officials say they are simply outmatched up against Musk’s followers and the X algorithm. “Election officials, they have a very hard job – their job is to be election officials not ...

Because TikTok keeps its algorithm secret, the only way that it’s possible for independent researchers to study how the algorithm works is to look at what specific users see on the platform. We ...

Mark Cuban warned that social media algorithms could determine the president. "This is the first AI driven election season where policy and personalities mean nothing," he wrote. He also called ...

Many of Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson's claims about discrepancies in the county's 2020 election results, which she has connected to a supposed algorithm altering absentee ballots to aid ...

But Election Day approached, and she started to sense red flags in that positivity. She recalls TikTok serving her enthusiasm for reproductive choice with videos encouraging “women’s rights ...