Twitter posted the source code of its recommendation algorithm on GitHub last week, but if anything, it's a clever red herring to divert attention from recent moves away from transparency. 🎨: WIRED Staff; Getty Images
the Netscape browser code and invited a community of developers around the world to contribute to it in 1998, and it has continued to push for an open internet since. So why aren’t I impressed or excited by Musk’s decision?
The irony is that many of the issues people raised over the weekend while analyzing the source code could actually be tested by the very tool that Twitter is in the process of disabling. For example, researchers speculated that the “UkraineCrisisTopic” parameter found in Twitter’s source code was a signal for the algorithm to demote tweets referring to the invasion of Ukraine.
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