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  • By Al Mayadeen net
  • Source: BBC
  • 22 Oct 2021 17:22
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Twitter's research suggests that tweets from right-leaning political groups and news outlets are amplified more than those from the left.

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  • According to Research, Twitter's Algorithm Favors Right-wing Politics
    Twitter's research was conducted on users in 7 countries according to the BBC.

The revelation surrounding Twitter was uncovered as the social media giant was examining how its algorithm suggests political information to users, according to a tech firm.

In a report by the BBC, the company is cited admitting that it had no idea why, calling it a "more difficult question to answer". Twitter has faced accusations of anti-conservative bias in the past.

The study by the firm looked at tweets from political parties and users sharing content from news sites in seven countries: Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Millions of tweets were analyzed between April 1 and August 15, 2020.

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Researchers compared the tweets that were magnified more on an algorithmically ordered feed to those that were amplified more on a reverse-chronological stream, both of which consumers can access.

Consequently, researchers discovered that mainstream political right-wing parties and outlets had higher degrees of "algorithmic amplification" than their left-wing equivalents.

Explaining the pattern is difficult

The company's next step, according to Rumman Chowdhury, director of Twitter's Meta (machine-learning, ethics, transparency, and accountability) team, is to find the cause of the issue.

She stated that Tweets from political-right elected officials are algorithmically amplified more than tweets from political-left elected officials in six out of seven countries. When compared to left-leaning news sites, right-leaning news outlets receive more amplification as well.

"Establishing why these observed patterns occur is a significantly more difficult question to answer and something Meta will examine," the director commented to the BBC.

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