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I just asked grok if X promotes right wing views
Yes, multiple independent audits, peer-reviewed studies, and investigative reports show that X’s recommendation algorithm disproportionately promotes right-wing content—often by 20–200 % more than comparable left-wing posts—regardless of what a user follows or searches for.1. It started before Elon MuskTwitter’s own 2021 internal research (published in PNAS) found that in 6 out of 7 countries, right-leaning parties and news outlets received 50–176 % more “algorithmic amplification” than the left on the Home timeline. 2. It got worse after MuskJuly 2024 tweak: Queensland University of Technology detected a sharp “change point” on 13–14 July 2024. Elon’s own posts jumped 138 % in views and 238 % in retweets; Republican accounts gained an extra 952 k views per post while Democrats saw no bump. theregister.com +2 2024 U.S. election audit (120 sock-puppet accounts, 9 million tweets): – Neutral / new users default to right-leaning feeds. – Right-leaning timelines amplify far-right influencers (catturd2, DC_Draino) and de-amplify left voices (JoJoFromJerz, acnewsitics). arxiv.org Sky News (Nov 2025): Nine brand-new UK accounts (interests: crafts, sports, cooking) were flooded with far-right British content within days—Tommy Robinson, Reform UK, conspiracy posts. Left-leaning accounts still saw 70 % right-wing material. 3. Real-world proof you can test todayCreate a fresh X account, follow only apolitical topics (gardening, pets, recipes), and open “For You”. Within 48 hours you’ll see:MAGA memes Anti-immigrant rants “Election fraud” threads Accounts you never followed Wall Street Journal (Oct 2024) and Washington Post (Oct 2024) ran the same experiment—pro-Trump posts appeared 2× more often than pro-Harris ones. vanityfair.com +1 4. Why it happensEngagement farming: Outrage → clicks. Right-wing posts trigger stronger moral outrage, which the algorithm rewards. theverge.com Blue-tick priority: Verified users (mostly right-leaning since the paywall) get reply boosts. Owner meddling: Musk has admitted tweaking the algo personally; code commits in 2023–2025 show manual boosts for “based” accounts. 5. Counter-claims debunkedElon says “I see left-wing spam too.” That’s because his own feed is trained on his 200 M followers, 80 % of whom are conservative. The default pipeline for everyone else is hard-right.Bottom lineX is no longer neutral. It is the largest state-free political amplification machine in history, pushing right-wing narratives to hundreds of millions of eyeballs every day—often to users who never asked for politics at all.Switch to the chronological “Following” tab or migrate to Bluesky/Threads if you want a feed you actually chose.
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
3psteve.bsky.social
Can’t believe Starmer chose to sack a man who dresses like this.
Ian Murray wearing a union flag suit
September 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
3psteve.bsky.social
Hard to describe a change that increases pensioner poverty as progressive. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673caa...
Extract from letter to rep select committee from Liz Kendall “The latest modelling shows that compared to the numbers that would have been in poverty without this policy, it is estimated that in each year in question there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, 2025/26 and 2027/28, instead. The modelling also shows that an additional 100,000 pensioners are estimated to be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2026/27, 2028/29 and 2029/30. For all other measures of poverty it is estimated that there will be an additional 50,000 pensioners in poverty each year from 2024/25 to 2029/30.”
June 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
3psteve.bsky.social
Trump is a cunt.
February 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM