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From that very fine fellow who seems to induce a quasi-religious fervour in a goodly portion of his (alleged) one hundred and eighteen million followers:
Except for, you know...
...We provide quantitative evidence from a long-running, massive-scale randomized experiment on the Twitter platform that committed a randomized control group including nearly 2 million daily active accounts to a reverse-chronological content feed free of algorithmic personalization...{snip}...Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In six out of seven countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left. Consistent with this overall trend, our second set of findings studying the US media landscape revealed that algorithmic amplification favors right-leaning news sources...
And who wrote the study, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in December of 2021, quoted from above?
Woke academics hiding high atop a social science tower made of pressed ivory soap suds?
No...
Mercenary trolls housed in a Soros-funded bunker deep beneath Left Blogistan?
Not them either...
Because, actually...
It was researched and written by folks from Twitter itself (mostly):
Imagine that!
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2 comments:
What, exactly and simply, is algorithmic amplification?
Gordie--
Based on my reading of the paper...It's digitally scraping through your activity (and the activity of accounts/folks you have interacted with) and presenting you with a collection of tweets that will best 'engage' you to keep you on the platform...The idea is to 'amplify' your experience above that which you would get in the pre-amplification days (i.e. before 2016) when all you would see are the tweets of folks you follow in reverse chronological order...
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