In a new study, people who were encouraged to follow mainstream news organizations on Instagram and WhatsApp were better at identifying true from false news stories. News followers were also more aware of important events and had more trust in news media and journalists.

A multidisciplinary research team in communication and computer science performed a systematic audit of YouTube’s video recommendations in 2021 and 2022 to test how a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them.