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This notion that open sourcing algo would resolve “speech” issue on social media is laughable. All it will do is reduce the contention down to said algo and how
by lvl102 5y ago
This notion that open sourcing algo would resolve “speech” issue on social media is laughable. All it will do is reduce the contention down to said algo and how it could be manipulated.
- transitivebs 5y agoYes and no. The goal here is to increase transparency and optionality around twitter's core feed. There will always be difficult, contentious human problems with a platform like twitter — but instead of writing it off as "laughable", there's a lot that can be done to improve the status quo. And imho that's a very impactful goal worth striving for.