HOUSTON – Pinterest may ban sexually explicit material, but some parents say that pornographic content is still getting through to the website. One mother of a 13-year-old said her son stumbled upon ...

For more than a decade, social platforms have faced criticism for embedding algorithms that fuel compulsive behaviors, encourage doomscrolling, and measure success by time spent glued to screens.

Pinterest today is announcing the formation of Pinterest Labs, a new research unit under the leadership of the startup's chief scientist, Jure Leskovec. Currently the group contains around 20 people ...