• @rsuri
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    1 day ago

    Remember when Elon said he’d “open source the algorithm”? Then he released a selection of arbitrary source code files mostly consisting of enums that tell us basically nothing about ranking, cut off access to APIs that researchers could use to study the site, and suddenly Republicans and alt-right content started showing up in everyone’s timeline…

    • @ZILtoid1991
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      518 hours ago

      I have a suspicion, that the actual algorithm’s code’s comments are filled with slurs of all kind.