The Twitter Algorithm

Re:The Twitter Algorithm by ModernMech on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:17AM (#35400936)

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

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Re:The Twitter Algorithm by nicky0 on Saturday April 01, 2023 @12:38PM (#35401642)

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.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

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Re:The Twitter Algorithm by ModernMech on Saturday April 01, 2023 @01:59PM (#35402414)

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.

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Re:The Twitter Algorithm by nicky0 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:36AM (#35435900)

Yes, discussion over, you learned nothing, you'll carry on defending your fixed beliefs, and you got in a cheap comment about a serious comic. Well done.

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