Our analysis found that the algorithm gave the biggest boost to the least accurate news sites—regardless of politics
An unlikely arbiter recently emerged in this debate: Twitter itself. In October it released a paper showing that its algorithm, which picks which tweets users see in which order, favoured right-leaning American news sites. In six of the seven countries studied, the algorithm also gave a disproportionate boost to lawmakers from conservative political parties. Twitter shared its data withThe study relied on a large experiment.
This discrepancy could arise for reasons besides ideology. To test alternatives, we fed Twitter’s data into a model that accounted for the amount of amplification in each country, political parties’ vote shares in the most recent elections and whether they were in government. Yet even after making these adjustments, the algorithm still favoured conservative parties.
In 2019 we studied how Google ranks news stories, and found that accuracy, not ideology, explained its rankings. This is also true of Twitter. However, whereas Google gave higher rankings to more reliable sites, we found that Twitter boosted the least reliable sources, regardless of their politics. Left-wing sites with poor accuracy scores, like. ProPublica, a non-profit focused on public-interest investigations, had one of the lowest amplification ratios.
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