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Feart n Tired ??????? (feartntired@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 03:27:37 JST Feart n Tired ???????
agree
and given the Elysian Fields aren't enforcing their TOS BeNice polices, what then!-
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Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 03:27:36 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
@LostInCalifornia @FeartnTired
Yeah, Musk's own tweets were very obviously and blatantly boosted. I kept getting his tweets in my notifications with the purple star icon (meaning "recommended by algorithm" from what I can tell) no matter how often I clicked "see this less often." I ultimately just muted his account to get rid of such notifications.
Other right wing accounts I'm not so sure about. The study mentioned by this article seems inconclusive as well. Limited data set, and I think there may be confounding variables, like the fact that Musk himself (with his boosted account) was drawing attention to those accounts, rather than them being boosted explicitly... The increased engagement of those accounts could also be the result of the algorithm having become more neutral, when it was previously biased in the other direction.
All in all, I don't think a shift to the right on Twitter can be denied. The only question is whether it's primarily because of Musk's own boosted account, or because of direct bias in the algorithm, or maybe even a mostly organic and natural phenomenon. -
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LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 03:27:37 JST LostInCalifornia
@FeartnTired No. He's adjusted the algorithms to give RW accounts an edge.
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LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:48:44 JST LostInCalifornia
@taylan @FeartnTired A lot of it is bot driven, and quite a few people have suggested most of the bots are Elon's own.
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LostInCalifornia (lostincalifornia@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:53:41 JST LostInCalifornia
@FeartnTired Look at the views, not the RTs.
He's boosting his own posts, along with the GOP.
I have a fairly eclectic bipartisan X set up, with mutes and lists, I don't follow a party line but I do RT liberal themes, and I find "trends for you" and "posts for you" always leaning RW.
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Feart n Tired ??????? (feartntired@spinster.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 05:53:42 JST Feart n Tired ???????
@LostInCalifornia even so there are large numbers of people I followed who don't post any more, they moved to bluesky because they thought it would be nicer there. So their voices aren't deboosted, they are just silent, by their own choice.
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