Category Archives: Platform Algorithms

How Meta, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn and other platforms decide what appears in people’s feeds.

Does Facebook Listen Through Your Microphone? How Ad Targeting Really Works

Is Facebook listening through your phone? What Meta says, what Cambridge Analytica showed, and how...

How the Facebook Algorithm Works: Ranking Signals Explained

Facebook Feed ranking explained from Meta's own documentation: inventory, signals, predictions, recommended posts, user controls...

Why Your TikTok Videos Get 0 Views: How the For You Feed Decides

Why does your TikTok video have 0 views? What TikTok says about For You feed...

Why You Can’t Stop Scrolling: How Feeds Are Designed

Infinite scroll, variable rewards, autoplay, notifications and ranking: how feeds keep you scrolling, what the...