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Twitter's recommendation algorithm has long since been completely open sourced. It's available right here: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

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Maybe I'm just getting old, but calling 5 weeks (well, it'll be 5 weeks tomorrow) "long since" seems odd.

when the article says:

"While open-source researchers cannot access Twitter’s algorithms directly,"

its been quite a long time for them to get that fact straight. that they're not just lying, they're gaslighting. this is disinformation, that's the point.

They uploaded sanitized point-in-time snapshot of the algorithm code. It did not include all the information necessary to actually understand how the algorithm works, nor is it an accurate reflection of how the algorithm currently works.

I do not see how saying "While open-source researchers cannot access Twitter’s algorithms *directly*," is disinformation.

That is their complete recommendation algorithm and the repo is regularly updated. Soon they will even be uploading their test suite so you can build and even test the entire recommendation system. This is complete disinformation coming from the Atlantic Council. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council

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