Almost every day, YouTube’s engineers experiment on us without our knowledge. They tweak video recommendations for subsets of users, review the results, and tweak again. Ideally, YouTube wants more ...

You open YouTube Shorts while waiting for your coffee. A couple of videos, you think. Thirty minutes later, you're still scrolling. The brain is buzzing, time is gone. YouTube Shorts isn't just a ...

It feels strange to think back to a time when we weren’t so concerned with social media algorithms. To the layperson, algorithms were just a nebulous mix of code that we knew controlled what we were ...