Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made public ...

Twitter is giving users a peek behind the curtain as it begins the process of taking away blue check marks. Most of the recommendation algorithm will be made open source today. The rest will follow.

Brandi Geurkink is a senior policy fellow at Mozilla. She is the creator of YouTubeRegrets, the largest-ever crowdsourced investigation into YouTube’s recommendation engine and its impact on society.

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

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Elon Musk is at the TED 2022 conference sharing his thoughts on a number of things, including how he wants Twitter to “open source the algorithm.” The suggestion is spurred in part by Musk wanting to ...

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