"We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."
bediger4000•47m ago
Where's Taibbi, Greenwald etc on this? Surely this is at least as big a Freedom of Speech issue as the Biden admin asking if COVID misinformation could be downgraded.
Actually, this reflects very poorly on Elon himself, who is personally directing algorithm changes, and also rode into Twitter on a Restoring Freedom of Speech high horse.
bhouston•1h ago
"We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."