Re:The Twitter Algorithm
by ModernMech on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:17AM
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As I said, we don't need to know anything internal about Twitter to know for a fact that they bent over backwards to elevate extremist right wing voices. Because they elevated the most important extremist voice for 4 years as he violated the terms of use for their platform. In effect, we all had one TOS, and there was a different, more permissive TOS for the leader of the US MAGA-right wing movement, the most extreme version of right wing politics in America. That's blatant, confirmed, irrefutable, systematic bias and special treatment for conservatives on Twitter, pre Musk.
In case you want to discount the Twitter report as a false flag, here's a report from NYU that independently confirmed Twitter is biased toward conservatives. It also found the same for Facebook: https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/bias-report-release-page
American universites are notoriously politically biased. Calling that "independent" is laughable.
Again - we beleive what we want to believe. We ignore what we want to ignore.
Re:The Twitter Algorithm
by ModernMech on Saturday April 01, 2023 @01:59PM
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You really can't just blanket claim that all research from a university is politically biased, even if you feel American universities in general are biased. Come on now, we're here for discourse that's a little more nuanced than that I hope.
Since all you're bringing to the discussion at this point is a comic, I think that's all there is to say.
In the end, we accept the things we agree with, and discredit the ones we prefer not to believe. Human nature.