by Chris Walker | May 7, 2026 | 2024 Election, Algorithms, News, Social Media, TikTok
A new study examining the algorithms of the social media site TikTok appears to suggest that content users received on the platform skewed more politically conservative during the 2024 presidential election, regardless of a user’s personal preferences. Researchers Talal Rahwan and Yasir Zaki at New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus created over 300 “dummy” bot accounts to mimic real-life…
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by Madyson Fitzgerald | Mar 27, 2026 | affordability, AI, AI surveillance, Algorithms, Food Prices, grocery costs, Instacart, News, Personal Data, Surveillance
One online grocery shopper got charged $3.99 for a box of Wheat Thins, while another — buying from the same store at the same time — got charged $4.89. A consumer watchdog detected this price discrepancy during an investigation last September in Seattle. The grocery app Instacart used an artificial intelligence-powered algorithm that charged customers differently for each item by as much as…
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