Meta's collaboration with independent researchers to investigate Facebook and Instagram's impact on the 2020 US election has published its first set of research papers. The papers analysed Facebook ...

Is Facebook exacerbating America's political divide? Are viral posts, algorithmically ranked feeds, and partisan echo chambers driving us apart? Do conservatives and liberals exist in ideological ...

Do social media echo chambers deepen political polarisation, or simply reflect existing social divisions? A landmark research project that investigated Facebook around the 2020 U.S. presidential ...

This photo shows the mobile phone app logos for, from left, Facebook and Instagram in New York, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) (CN) — A study claiming Meta’s news feed algorithm ...

Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. But it’s ...

The California State Court of Appeals reversed a decision made in 2020 that stated Facebook was protected from legal action under Section 230. Facebook can be sued over claims its advertising ...