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This is a very cynical take. They should be commended for publishing recommendation code at all, which no other major social network does.
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#542Aaaand the issues turned into a shitpost
In fairness they could save some RAM by rewriting it in Rust 6 or 7 times.
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The fallacy of false equivalence systematized in code. Now one side can spew as much disinfo and incitement to violence as it likes, and any algorithm change that prevents this shit from getting amplified will be rejected as bias. BSaaS = Both Sides as a Service
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What are you talking about? Do you remember January 6?
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Also how about.... everyone else in the world who is not an American voter?
Before I deliberately locked myself out of it (well before Musk), I asked for my data. They classify me as: * speaks Indonesian Interested in: * Beer * Cricket * DJs * Dance * Enterprise software * Horror * NFL football * South America And aged either between 13-54 or (and?) over 65 Other than the age (I'm neither under 13 nor between 55-64), everything I've listed is incorrect. On that basis, they'd probably call me…
I'm a guy in my 30s but they had me classified as a 65+ year old woman. They also thought I was a radiologist.
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#545Say what you will about Elon, but this wouldn't have happened without him. Thanks! And thank you to everyone at Twitter who helped organize this release. Open sourcing something like this is no small effort.
Judging by the many "issues" already, it might have been a bad idea to release on a friday, though.
I'm not connecting the dots. Why is it bad to release on Friday?
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You say it’s not nefarious but isn’t that how echo chambers are created?
I don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want. But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.
The echo chamber in your first point does the suppression in the second.
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I thought it was interesting how it explicitly doesn't boost independents. So much of the two-party system is self-reinforcing.
I thought it was interesting that twitter thinks the U.S is the world
For a big tech company, the regulatory regime is the world. For Twitter that's the US.
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The vast majority of self-proclaimed independents vote with one party just as reliably as registered members.
American's lax attitude towards cultivating more than two parties is literally killing the republic from the inside.
In some other countries the different interest groups sort themselves into two factions after being elected but I don't know that it is really that different in practice.
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Well, there was this: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...
That doesn't say they did anything about it. Just that right wing complaints had no substance. In fact, in just over a year from the publication of that blog post, Twitter -- as a matter of official company policy -- would be promoting the unfounded belief that Twitter engineers and scientists were actively engaging in a propaganda campaign against conservatives. The exact opposite reaction of what I'm looking for. h…
I think it says a lot about the complaints. Some people just can't stop crying wolf to get attention
And apparently it works, considering those flags
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I don't believe echo chambers are nefarious - there's no hidden agenda involved with them. That's just how recommendation algorithms work, and it's what most people want. But if someone finds some code that suppresses recommendations from a specific political ideology across the board, that would be nefarious, IMO.
Echo chambers may not be nefarious, but they are insidious.
They can be if they're involuntary and inescapable, but neither is the case for Twitter. It's designed around letting you curate your own feed, but it also constantly throws random stuff in through retweets and quote tweets - which is what people hate the most about the platform.