
Social media algorithms have been a point of contention for lawmakers and regulators for several years over concerns that users were being brainwashed by the flood of misinformation promoted on their feeds.

Social media algorithms have been a point of contention for lawmakers and regulators for several years over concerns that users were being brainwashed by the flood of misinformation promoted on their feeds.
Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Johannes Simon/Getty Images; Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Patrick Pleul/Pool/AFP via Getty Images; Courtesy of Robert Cowherd
Getty

VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report.
Emin Sansar/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images
LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.