In 2023, the journal Science published an article investigating the effects of Instagram and Facebook’s feed algorithms during the 2020 U.S. election. The research ... the previous researchers ...

"conducted a randomized control experiment during the same time that Facebook had made a systemic, short-term change to their news algorithm." Beginning around the start of November 2020 ...

They say their results provide an important caveat to prior research by showing evidence that in 2020, YouTube's algorithm was responsible for "disproportionately" recommending election fraud ...

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 ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the platform’s algorithm following the 2020 election to highlight outlets like CNN, the New York Times and NPR, according to a report from the Times on ...

The world's most-used search engine is so powerful and national elections are so tight, that even a tiny tweak in Google's secret algorithm ... The five double-blind, randomized studies included ...