As part of an ongoing investigation into X, the European Commission has requested documents from the company related to how its recommendation systems work. The European Union's regulatory arm is ...

How Transparent Should These Systems Be? Recommendation algorithms are at the heart of many social media platforms—so it’s no surprise that companies want to keep them under wraps.

And here’s why: Recommender systems (machine-learning algorithms) are often intentionally too “heavy-handed” in their result, showing us way too much of one thing.