A series of changes at Twitter have laid bare what the service has become under Elon Musk: a place where speech is anything but free.
In general, removing legacy verifications may take Twitter a while, as insiders say removing them isTwitter's Friday release of some of the code that it uses to choose and rank content in the "For You" section provided readers with some new surprises.as Democrat or Republican. Per Mashable, developers said this was so Twitter could track whether algorithm changes were affecting one party disproportionately. But such tracking also opens the door to potential abuses.
Musk's account, meanwhile, also has his own special category in the code, which could explain why many users have reported seeing his messages so prominently. The open-sourcing of the engine also revealed other mechanics at play, including how the service boosts content with images, downranks certain content with external links and increases distributionsuch as likes, retweets and replies, while limiting content that results in blocks and other negative engagement.
There are other examples of the company putting its thumb on the scale. Tweets about Ukraine, for example, areSeparate from the algorithm, many users noted that there are a series of words that Twitter seems to want people not to use. If you use the words "trans" or "transgender" in a tweet, for example, the message won't preview if you share it via direct message on Twitter. (This was
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