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Australia seeks to curb social media algorithms with new feed choice law

Australia’s proposed “My Feed, My Way” reforms would let users opt out of algorithmic recommendations and see only content from accounts they follow.

 Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram apps are seen on a smartphone in this illustration taken, July 13, 2021
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New CAM report reveals disturbing details about Instagram’s algorithm

Pro-Palestinian protesters march in a ‘Rise Up for gaza’ demonstration in New York City last year.

Online algorithms are driving Israel’s global reputation crisis - opinion

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EXPOSED: Instagram algorithm flooding millions with antisemitic content, new research reveals


Dutch researchers develop algorithm to predict severe COVID-19 complications

The algorithm can accurately predict the risk of developing severe complications, including hospitalization, institutionalization and death.

A patient suffering from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is treated an the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). May 6, 2020

Tesla is trying to enter the Israeli insurance market - report

Tesla established its own independent insurance company in 2019, currently only available to its clients in California.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk listens at a press conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 6, 2018.

Facebook algorithms actively promote Holocaust denial, think tank finds

Typing “holocaust” in the Facebook search function brought up suggestions for denial pages, which point users to publishers that sell revisionist and denial literature.

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Israeli algorithm may predict if cancer patients will respond to treatment

It could also spare patients from undue suffering, since immunotherapy treatments can trigger severe auto-immune reactions.

Eran Issler, Head of Bioinformatics and Dr. Ofer Sharon, MD, CEO of OncoHost

Technion students develop algorithm to land aircraft with engine failure

The algorithm would help pilots in distress reroute and land safely.

The student team with their mentors: O. Freund , A. Yarosinski,; K. Kohai; N. Shimkin, H. & D. Straussman and A. Bar-Gill.