Twitter study finds ML algos favour politicians, right leaning content

  • In a blog post earlier this week, the company announced that this research showed that its machine learning algorithms amplify political content disproportionately.
  • The company didn’t mention which news outlets were examined.
  • Twitter said that the study only identified that political content is amplified on the platform, but establishing why these patterns occur is a whole other problem.

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