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Offline waldo

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Re: Miscellaneous stuff
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2022, 02:14:29 pm »
There's already rumors that Musk will un-suspend The Babylon Bee's account.  They were suspended on Twitter for posting satire.
Musk is being lobbied to make 2 significant changes.

1.  End politically motivated algorithms.
2.  Users must register and tweet using their real names, to help end abuse.

Musk isn't a majority controlling shareholder... and so long as he stays on the board, will never be - so your fevered aspirations are moot! As for your nattering over politically motivated algorithms... which you've already identified as "censoring Conservatives"... try this on for size, hey: Twitter algorithms amplify conservative content more than that of the political left, researchers find

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Twitter researchers analyzed millions of 2020 tweets by elected officials in seven countries — Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Britain and United States — as well as posts that linked to political content from news outlets. Researchers relied on outside experts to determine what was right- or left-leaning rather than deciding for themselves.

“Our results reveal a remarkably consistent trend: In 6 out of 7 countries studied, the mainstream political right enjoys higher algorithmic amplification than the mainstream political left,” the researchers wrote in a 27-page report.