Paris prosecutors have raided the French offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X as part of a widening criminal investigation into how content is recommended on the platform and the role played by its AI systems. Police specialising in cybercrime, assisted by Europol, carried out the raid, according to the Paris prosecutor's office. Investigators said the operation was linked to an inquiry into X's recommendation algorithm, which has now been expanded to include scrutiny of the company's AI chatbot, Grok.
For instance, when a user watches a romantic comedy on Netflix, the system identifies similar titles liked by others with comparable viewing habits. On Spotify, listening to a few indie tracks might prompt the algorithm to suggest playlists featuring similar artists. These systems continuously learn from user activity, refining their precision over time.
Younger audiences behave this way most strongly, but they're not alone. Vertical video has quietly become a cross-generational news discovery system. All age groups are consuming more online news video each year, and the share of people watching social videos as a new source has risen from 52% to 65% since 2020, according to the 2025 Reuters Institute Digital News Report.
On Wednesday Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) introduced the Algorithm Accountability Act, which amends Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make platforms responsible for preventing their recommendation systems from causing certain foreseeable harms. Section 230 is the law that shields online platforms - including social media sites, digital forums, blogs with comment sections, and their users -
Videos made with OpenAI's Sora app are flooding TikTok, Instagram Reels and other platforms, making people increasingly familiar and fed up with nearly unavoidable synthetic footage being pumped out by what amounts to an artificial intelligence slop machine. Digital safety experts say something else that is happening may be less obvious but more consequential to the future of the internet: OpenAI has essentially rebranded deepfakes as a light-hearted plaything and recommendation engines are loving it.
These days, Netflix is one of many platforms that offer a staggering amount of titles to choose from -- and yet, there is more there than meets the eye. Did you know Netflix has secret cheat codes? As it turns out, Netflix has a plethora of shows and movies available that you don't normally see when booting up the app. Our personalized, algorithm-based menus confine us to viewing only a fraction of the entire Netflix library.