https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-elon-musk-dril-mrbeast-algorithm-accounts https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-el

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-elon-musk-dril-mrbeast-algorithm-accounts https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-el... > To help assuage Musk’s concerns, Platformer reports that Twitter’s engineers created a way to “tweak” the site’s ranking system when they noticed a high-profile user’s engagement dropping, ensuring “that tweets from those accounts were always shown.” That’s part of the reason why users saw Musk all over their timelines in February, as it essentially exempts these accounts from Twitter’s algorithm (although Platformer says Musk’s boost was different from what all the other users receive). https://gizmodo.com/twitter-algorithm-aoc-ben-shapiro-catturd2-1850272655 https://gizmodo.com/twitter-algorithm-aoc-ben-shapiro-cattur... > In February, Twitter rolled out a system to boost Musk’s tweets over everyone else’s and began boosting the tweets of these VIPS, albeit to a lesser extent. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-code-russia-1850293386 https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-... > Misinformation is highly down-ranked > Anything that is categorized as misinformation gets the rug pulled out from under it. > Surprisingly, so are posts about Ukraine. ... > Late on Monday, Gupta told Gizmodo that “upon further investigation” he and his fellows looking into the Twitter code found that it only applies to Twitter Spaces, the platform’s live meeting feature.