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X is amplifying far-right accounts

https://www.avclub.com/twitter-x-amplifying-right-wing-accounts
17•saubeidl•2h ago

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hoppp•1h ago
I think that's by design. Twitter has became a far-right platform since Musk took over and renamed it to X
spwa4•26m ago
This is seen on most other platforms as well. Facebook, instagram and perhaps most worryingly tiktok.
Havoc•1h ago
And here I thought the home of mecha hitler would be neutral ground /s
NotGMan•1h ago
Obviously when Twitter was far left and full or censorship of the right such articles were not written.
SirFatty•1h ago
Sure..
saubeidl•1h ago
When was Twitter ever far-left? I don't recall a time when it was calling for public ownership of the means of production, overthrowing capitalism, working class uprisings or any other far-left platform...
spwa4•12m ago
Ever notice how people refuse to accept that their view on politics has a leaning? That a leftists' idea of what constitutes far left might require tankies (ie. accounts that advocate violent imposition of communism/socialism by an external force like Russia or terrorism), whereas for rightist far left might mean as little as limits on enforcement of immigration rules.

Just yesterday there was news about a protest in a cinema in Paris, where the police essentially invaded, and yes, beat people attempting to stop them into the hospital, and arrested "the core" of the protest. The police's story is that a small group tried to set the cinema on fire (very French of them, I must say, what's a protest without something on fire?), which is kind of confirmed by them arresting like 0.1% of the protestors, showing torches they found on the protestors, a big scorch mark on the floor, plus they let the protest continue. Of course, on the internet the only intention of the police using, granted, a LOT of force (as soon as they saw the torch, according to the police statement), preventing protestors from setting an old wooden Parisian building with more than 1000 people inside on fire was to protect Israeli aggression/colonialism (there was an Israeli concert happening) ... For now the newspapers and TV are a bit more on the sane side, but every year that passes more and more newspapers are joining the lunatics on the left or right (and truth be told, mostly on the left)

twatter•1h ago
I would be interested to see the methodology and the raw data for this analysis. Most importantly, how are they defining "far-right" and "extreme"?
saubeidl•1h ago
Sky News has a very well-made site going into more detail on methodology etc: https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boo...
RickJWagner•52m ago
I was just wondering why it seems we see headlines about ‘far right’ issues, but seldom see headlines about ‘far left’ things.

If there is a political center, shouldn’t the headlines carry a similar number of headlines ( at least over time? I can understand that at times one side or the other might be more news worthy, but honestly I just don’t remember a time where headlines discussed someone being ‘far left’)

saubeidl•34m ago
It's because the far-right is in power all over the world, while I can't really think of a single far-left government anywhere. It's just not as big of an issue.
bdangubic•19m ago
yea feels like media should do both so for every “far-right” story which are happening pretty much hourly the media should make up a “far-left” story to counter it, it is only fair :)
bediger4000•11m ago
I think those moral panics about Bluesky count in that category. Conservatives don't get a fair hearing or get blocked there, etc etc.
smitty1e•13m ago
The center is those getting flamed evenly from the 'left' and 'right'.
itsoktocry•1h ago
They created 9 accounts for the study, and had "experts" qualify content as left or right wing. They could have at least tried before publishing this story for the 100th time.
crtasm•1h ago
>Sky News collaborated with digital consultancy firm 411 to train a Large Language Model - an AI tool - to categorise the content into political and apolitical categories. The definitions for those categories were created in consultation with multiple computer science academics and social media experts. The 5,981 accounts we categorised accounted for 67% of all of the posts in our dataset. See our full methodology here[0].

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/how-sky-news-investigated-xs-algo...

itsoktocry•58m ago
From the article:

>"Specifically, the Sky News team ran a study where they created nine new Twitter/X accounts, three left-wing, three right-wing, and three politically neutral, and then tracked what content got dumped into their “For You” tabs on the Elon Musk-owned social media service during a one-month period in 2025"

crtasm•51m ago
Yes, the link I provided gives much more information on their method including the names of the people who set the categories.

I don't find any mention of how/if they separated the accounts by using different IPs/types of internet connection - seems like a bit of an omission.

spwa4•27m ago
If you think this is bad, register a fresh tiktok account, especially if you're from Europe and know for example what French or German extreme-right content looks like.

WTF.

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