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Twitter's algorithms are manipulating people, according to Musk.

 

Twitter's algorithms are manipulating people, according to Musk.




Elon Musk claimed that Twitter's timeline algorithm influenced users, prompting a response from creator and former CEO Jack Dorsey.

This is the most recent development in Musk's tumultuous takeover of the corporation.

In a recent tweet, Musk argued that the platform's default timeline, which shows tweets based on popularity and user interests, needs to be replaced.

"The algorithm is manipulating you in ways you're not even aware of," Musk remarked. By clicking on the star in the upper right corner of the screen, he encouraged his followers to change the chronology to see the most recent tweets.

Dorsey responded by disagreeing with Musk, claiming that the position was merely a tool to keep followers up to date on current events and that it could be easily modified.


It's aimed to save you time when you've been away from the app for a while, according to Dorsey. Pulling to refresh will also take you backwards in time.


Dorsey then responded to a tweet from a user who claimed that the feature was intended to be tampered with, but that doing so could have negative implications.


They weren't supposed to be tampered with, according to Dorsey. Designed to assist you and highlight your passions. This can result in unwanted consequences. Dorsey contended that the existing option was the better one.

Several hours later, Musk responded to himself, claiming that Twitter's manipulation was not intentional. "I'm not saying the algorithm is evil," he continued, "but it's attempting to guess what you would want to read." As a result, they alter or exaggerate your perspectives without even recognizing it.


Not to mention the possibility of programming problems. 

Open source is the way to go if you want to reconcile both trust and efficacy.

Musk has made Twitter's algorithm a big talking point, claiming that it should be open source to boost trust in the platform, and that the acquisition is contingent on confirmation that just 5% of the site's accounts are bots.


Musk receives a response from Twitter's creator.

Musk suspects the figure is greater, so he's selecting a random sample of 100 Twitter followers. When a user asked him to clarify the bot filtering procedure, he said, "I chose 100 as the sample size because that's the number Twitter uses to determine the 5% of fake, spam, and duplicate accounts."

Musk stated that he has not seen any data indicating that the social media company has less than 5% phony accounts, and that the number of fraudulent accounts might be as high as 90% of daily active users.

The legal team at Twitter accused Tesla's CEO of breaking the non-disclosure agreement by stating that the sample size for Twitter's automatic user checks was 100.

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