Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

A blog post written by Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri explains how content is ranked for users in different sections of the app. Mosseri goes over how content is ranked in the main feed, the explore feed, ...