Twitter owner Elon Musk accused the platform s former leadership of interfering in elections through content moderation and failed public trust on November 30. 01.12.2022, Sputnik International
While free speech seems to be at the core of Musk’s plans, one key change that he highlighted was to make the platform’s algorithms open source in order to ‘increase trust’
Twitter’s ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) research team analysed the tweets posted by elected officials between April 1 and August 15, 2020. They also studied tweets containing links to news articles shared by people on Twitter.
Twitter details plan to understand if its algorithms are causing ‘unintentional harms’
Rounak JainApr 15, 2021, 14:18 IST
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Twitter’s algorithms have been accused of racial bias in the past.
The social networking service has also come under attack from people of different political ideologies of favouring one over the other.
The company has set up a META team that will study the issues and implement solutions.
Twitter has promised that the study will be in-depth and details will be revealed in a transparent manner.
Social networking giant Twitter has announced that it has set up a team of data scientists and engineers to figure out if its algorithms are causing “unintentional harm”.