In December 2017, rumors that a new Facebook algorithm was restricting the number of friends whose content appears in users' newsfeeds hit the social media network: ?I was wondering why my news ...

Users could also ask friends to assess their personalities ... Wu and Kosinski developed an algorithm that predicts somebody’s Five Factor personality type using only Facebook likes.

They then developed an algorithm that examines several objective features of a perceived friendship (that is, the number of common friends or the total number of friends) and is able to ...

Their own friends have disappeared, except for the few. The execs blame it on algorithms. Their thumbs are not on the scale, they aver. It’s technology, it’s a machine that decides who is ...

not algorithm-driven content. To accomplish this, RTRO divides its social experience into two parts — on one side, you can keep up with friends or family in RTRO’s “circles.” On the other ...

Another one promised that copying and pasting the characters "OO5251839" could "circumvent" Facebook's algorithm and make old friends appear in users' feeds. Neither of these posts was true.

The top of my Facebook feed currently shows a photo of a woman I’m not really friends with—I think we were on a kickball team once?—who recently got married. This photo has topped my feed ...