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We weren't born yesterday. We all know that you can massage the data, or redefine terms to produce any conclusion you want. It's really easy to see Twitter's b
by cato_the_elder 5y ago
We weren't born yesterday. We all know that you can massage the data, or redefine terms to produce any conclusion you want.
It's really easy to see Twitter's bias: just look at the propaganda they put in the search page, or look at their employee donations [1], or the Twitter profiles of their employees, or remember in support of which candidate they censored a news story. [2]
[1]: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-employees-democrats-99-percent-donations-midterm-elections.amp https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-employees-democrats...
[2]: https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/elon-musk-says-suspending-ny-post-from-twitter-was-incredibly-inappropriate/ https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/elon-musk-says-suspending-ny-p...
- cato_the_elder 5y ago> The exact posts to which Twitter users are exposed in their news feeds might differ due to the recommendation algorithm, which is not available via Twitter’s programmatic interface. And there we go, so they have discovered that without the recommendation algorithm (i.e. roughly the chronological timeline), what you see is what you follow. And that's supposed to be evidence against Twitter's political bias.