alt Hacker News> There is no top down pro-facsism pro-racism pro-MAGA finger-on-the-dial algo-shaping.
Yes, but there isn’t on X either, that’s a conspiracy you’ve made up because you dislike Elon Musk. The Algo simply picks the top n items you are most likely to interact with.
Elon Musk is all of those things personally (see: that heil-handing incident), and it's public knowledge that he made the Twitter engineering team amplify his own posts.[1]
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/report-musk-had-...