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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by seydor on Saturday April 01, 2023 @08:13AM (#35399615)
Followed users will still show

But i agree it is a bad idea. The worst actors have money to buy the blue marks of an army of accounts.

This is basically making it easier for authoritarian governments to abuse it

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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by dazc on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:43AM (#35400251)
Like that wasn't already happening?
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by seydor on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:56AM (#35400330)
not with blue marks
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by dazc on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:06AM (#35400412)
I'm not in the US
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Re:Twitter open sourced the recommendation engine by seydor on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:55PM (#35401826)
It's actually non-US autharitarian governments that the biggest abusers, using social media against their own people

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/13/facebook-...

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