This would make sense if twitter actually made profit or at least grew its "capital" (the users). But what they actually did is increase the work force and lose

This would make sense if twitter actually made profit or at least grew its "capital" (the users). But what they actually did is increase the work force and lose active users. This is a strong evidence to me that the algorithms aren't actually driven by raw capitalistic incentives but are at least partially a tool to manipulate public discourse.