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So as expected, there is exactly nothing that favors posters from one side of the political spectrum. I don't expect that this article will do anything to calm
by rco8786 4y ago
So as expected, there is exactly nothing that favors posters from one side of the political spectrum. I don't expect that this article will do anything to calm down those who are convinced otherwise though.
Well written article, from an engineer's perspective.
- vore 4y agoWell, it does say this: Ranking is achieved with a ~48M parameter neural network that is continuously trained on Tweet interactions to optimize for positive engagement (e.g. Likes, Retweets, and Replies). This ranking mechanism takes into account thousands of features and outputs ten labels to give each Tweet a score, where each label represents the probability of an engagement. We rank the Tweets from these scores. This is basically the ultimate black box, so I don't think you can really conclude anything like this either way.
- bombcar 4y agoMore like the ultimate hug box generator, that will quickly partition you into a self-reinforcing bucket.
- IngvarLynn 4y agoAlgorithm exists and is non-trivial, therefore it favors those groups of posters that spend more effort to hack it.
- RoyGBivCap 4y ago[dead]
- waynenilsen 4y agoShadowbanning was real and widely applied. That is the human part of the algorithm (manual mode) and it was very politically skewed