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slashdot
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Twitter's Algorithm Favors the Political Right, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Conversation: Twitter has on various occasions been accused of political bias, with politicians or commentators alleging Twitter's algorithm amplifies their opponents' voices, or silences their own. In this climate, Twitter commissioned a study to understand whether their algorithm may be biased towards a cert ... ⌘ Read more
prologic
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I'm kind of curious... Does anyone know any details of this so-called "Twitter™ algorithm" ? 🤔
prologic
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I'm kind of curious... Does anyone know any details of this so-called "Twitter™ algorithm" ? 🤔
thecanine
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@prologic No one does, but in the case if politics, it's always been the strategy to blame your shortcomings on something and this has made it easier than ever.

What I've heard and wouldn't find hard to believe, is that the algorithm and platform in general is over-designed to appeal to as many people as possible, so in case of politics, it's letting the leftoids report the right, than rightoids get removed, making leftoids feel like Twitter is on their side.

Then it lets the rightoids ban-evade, so they can feel like they're fighting the system and can live out their pretend revolution fantasies.