A developer has discovered a U.S. government intervention option and other insights in Twitter’s recently open sourceed recommendation algorithm.
the company’s attempts at content moderation and cooperation with law enforcement, including hiring former FBI agents and working with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
The extent to which the platform may have been influenced or under the control of governments has been questioned in light of these revelations from the Twitter files. Several former FBI agents worked for Twitter, according to a batch of documents that Michael Shellenberger . At the time, former FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan was the main person behind numerous censorship requests, including those pertaining to Hunter Biden’s contentious “laptop from hell.”worked together
with contractors to put pressure on Twitter to moderate content. According to reports, these organizations used information portals to update Twitter frequently with instructions on which accounts to block. The discovery of the “GovernmentRequested” intervention mechanism and its potential effects on user confidence in the platform have not yet been publicly addressed by Twitter. More information about Twitter’s recommendation algorithm’s inner workings may become apparent as more developers delve deeper into the open-source code, sparking more debate about the need for accountability and transparency in social media algorithms.
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