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Twitter’s own research shows that it’s a megaphone for the right. But it’s complicated.
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Posted on 10/21/2021 2:33:21 PM PDT by algore

Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform's algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians and content from right-leaning news outlets more than people and content from the political left.

The research did not identify whether or not the algorithms that run Twitter's Home feed are actually biased toward conservative political content, because the conclusions only show bias in amplification, not what caused it. Rumman Chowdhury, the head of Twitter's machine learning, ethics, transparency and accountability team, called it "the what, not the why" in an interview with Protocol.

"We can see that it is happening. We are not entirely sure why it is happening. To be clear, some of it could be user-driven, people's actions on the platform, we are not sure what it is.

It's just important that we share this information," Chowdhury said. The META team plans to conduct what she called a "root-cause analysis" to try to discover the "why," and that analysis will likely include creating testable hypotheses about how people use the platform that could help show whether it's the way users interact with Twitter or the algorithm itself that is causing this uneven amplification.

Twitter didn't define for itself what news outlets and politicians are "right-leaning" or belong to right-wing political parties, instead using definitions from other researchers outside the company.

The study looked at millions of tweets from politicians across seven countries and hundreds of millions of tweets of links from news outlets, not tweets from the outlets themselves.

Chowdhury emphasized that Twitter doesn't already know what causes certain content to be amplified. "When algorithms get put out into the world, what happens when people interact with it, we can't model for that.

(Excerpt) Read more at protocol.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coverup; lies; twitter
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There are many good articles about how we cannot understand how "AI" thinks, or predict what actions it might take.

Which is why we need as many autonomous armed robots, drones and AI overseers as possible.

1 posted on 10/21/2021 2:33:21 PM PDT by algore
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Suprised the did not accuse the AI of being “racist”


2 posted on 10/21/2021 2:37:30 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To counter this very dangerous trend, Twitter will push harder to the Left and increase the censorship of anyone who is not a communist.


3 posted on 10/21/2021 2:37:37 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: algore
That's like Pfizer saying their own “research” shows their vaccine is very effective against covid.
This nonsense from Twitter needs to be treated with the utter contempt it deserves.
4 posted on 10/21/2021 2:39:34 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: MNJohnnie

That happened years ago. AI is considered racist as it doesn’t apply feelings and only uses logic.


5 posted on 10/21/2021 2:40:38 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (`)
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To counter this very dangerous trend

There is no such trend.
It's all made up.

6 posted on 10/21/2021 2:41:09 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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“Twitter is publicly sharing research findings today that show that the platform’s algorithms amplify tweets from right-wing politicians and content from right-leaning news outlets more than people and content from the political left.”

That’s because they consider 95% of the population “right wing”. Even censoring 9/10 of their posts still doesn’t achieve equity.


7 posted on 10/21/2021 2:41:17 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-revealed-the-dangers-of-online-conversation


8 posted on 10/21/2021 2:43:38 PM PDT by algore ( )
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To: SmokingJoe

Of course there is no such trend. But they search for justification to do more of what they already do.


9 posted on 10/21/2021 2:44:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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Twitter is a sewer. I had an account. I deleted it.


10 posted on 10/21/2021 2:45:18 PM PDT by FMBass (USN DE-1074 NNTaleb fan )
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Surprised the did not accuse the AI of being “racist”

Well that's the entire problem with the article, isn't it? I mean, if Twitter censors negative statements about or from Biden, that would technically be censorship of a left-leaning politician, although the purpose is actually to protect him.

All this means is that Twitter freely permits leftists to pick and choose from the worst of the statements of anyone identified as a conservative, and tweet freely about that. But if we try to use the words of a leftist politician against them, censored!

11 posted on 10/21/2021 2:46:23 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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What a farce.

This is the same company spent the last month of the 2020 election blacklisting ANYTHING found on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Then they topped it off by banning Donald Trump altogether while he was still President.

Their only regret is that there’s still anyone at all on their platform that doesn’t parrot 100% the party line of the Demrats and the fake news echo chamber.


12 posted on 10/21/2021 2:47:31 PM PDT by LuxAerterna
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a megaphone for the right?

Or merely reflecting that most people on the planet are not leftists.


13 posted on 10/21/2021 2:48:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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They will do what they always do anyways irrespective. That is push a far left agenda and crack down on conservatives and Republican candidates. Until a tough conservative platform starts grabbing their business.
Here is hoping President Trump's new platform (just announced today) clobbers them.
14 posted on 10/21/2021 2:49:32 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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It shouldn't matter. If we taught critical thinking people wouldn't believe everything on social media. Never understood the outrage over Russia trying to influence election. Anyone can fact check with a phone these days. Multiple sources.

Bills are online. CSPAN archives. Arrest records. Brandon's videos.

I don't know anyone who votes based on what a tweeted Facebook, billboard or radio commercials.

Educate your children and voters discernment and sources and it won't matter

15 posted on 10/21/2021 2:52:26 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Of course it’s complicated.....Demorats never work without chaos and confusion...never.


16 posted on 10/21/2021 2:54:41 PM PDT by caww ( )
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Of course it’s complicated.....Demorats never work without chaos and confusion...never.


17 posted on 10/21/2021 2:54:41 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: algore

Could be some truth to it. Every time a conservative speaks the lefties have cows. They are the ones who keep it alive.


18 posted on 10/21/2021 3:28:57 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Twitter routinely blocks or limits anyone for the slightest reason without notice. It has a myriad of ways to isolate any undesirable from the platform. It uses both human and AI filters.


19 posted on 10/21/2021 3:47:37 PM PDT by Luke21
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What in the propaganda is this crap!?


20 posted on 10/21/2021 4:07:21 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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