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X published Brazil's election censorship filter in code; India's secrecy law prevents this

X government censorship filter now embeds Brazil's 2026 election suppression demands as inspectable open-source code -- ...
gizmodo

Twitter’s Recommendation Algorithm Is Now Open Source

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 ...
Engadget

What did Twitter’s ‘open source’ algorithm actually reveal? Not a lot.

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, ...
TechCrunch

X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’

X is significantly expanding its open source codebase, which includes the app’s “For You” algorithm and its core ranking engine, and adding a feature that will let users see if their account or posts ...
Bleeping Computer

Twitter open-sources recommendation algorithm code

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 ...
Shacknews

Musk says Twitter will make tweet recommendation algorithm code open source on March 31

"Our ‘algorithm’ is overly complex and not fully understood internally. People will discover many silly things, but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found,” Musk explained. We’re developing a ...
Engadget

Twitter’s recommendation algorithm is now on GitHub

Nearly a year after Elon Musk first floated the idea of making Twitter's recommendation algorithm public, the company has posted the source code for its recommendation algorithm on GitHub. In a ...
Campaign Middle East

X makes algorithm and visibility more transparent with new tools

X is open-sourcing its For You ranking code and launching a tool to show users labels that may limit the visibility of their ...
Shacknews

Twitter recommendation algorithm source code has been posted to GitHub

One of the many promises Elon Musk made after taking over Twitter was that he would open source Twitter’s algorithm, something that the social media company notoriously kept private before his tenure.
Business Insider

Elon Musk says it's 'weird' that his name was found in Twitter's algorithm source code along with labels like 'Democrat' or 'Republican'

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. What's Elon Musk's name doing in the source code for Twitter's algorithm? Elon Musk addressed ...

X opens algorithm to public that determines how posts are ranked, filtered

X is opening more of the code behind its 'For You' feed and adding a tool that lets eligible users check whether labels on their accounts or posts could be limiting their visibility ...