A professor is suing Facebook over its recommendation algorithms

Ethan Zuckerman is a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia .

He argues that the Facebook algorithm “forgets friends I want to hear from, becomes obsessed with people to whom I’m only loosely connected, and generally feels like an obstacle to how I'd like to connect with my friends’s.

If it succeeds, he argues, “we can decide how social media works for us and for our children through tools we can control,” he says.

A software developer has launched a lawsuit to stop the use of his Unfollow Everything tool.

He says it's impossible to predict whether the suit will succeed, but some legal observers have come around to his way of thinking.

The prime minister of Slovakia , Robert Fico , was shot and rushed to the hospital; his condition is stable.

Politico reports that Biden and his allies have soured on the commission that organizes the 2020 presidential debates.

Slate looks at tensions between MSNBC and NBC News .

A court in Guatemala orders that a muckraking journalist be released from prison while he awaits a retrial on money-laundering charges.