Elon Musk says he’ll make Twitter’s algorithm open source next week. As my colleague Christiaan Hetzner notes in his write-up of the development, Musk promises a lot of things and often fails to deliver, but, if the poly-CEO does follow through on this, it could be the most consequential decision of his Twitter tenure.
There would be three major effects of open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithm. The first would be political: Allowing outsiders to poke around the code should settle any questions about alleged ideological bias within the company’s algorithm itself.
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