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So, the day after the headline that Twitter is artificially promoting polarizing political voices, Twitter open-sources their algorithm! What does the commit h
by woolion 4y ago
So, the day after the headline that Twitter is artificially promoting polarizing political voices, Twitter open-sources their algorithm!
What does the commit history say? There are 3 commits, like a very very real programming project.
The issues and pull requests show how much people are fooled by this very transparent move.
So this is an obvious attempt at a digital potemkin village, that like the real one, poorly succeeds in hiding the truth.
Elon does not not want to upset the apple cart (political economical or ideological) but make his followers believe in it, and so we get this.
Great spectacle, if that's what you're interested in.