Twitter has revealed its own survey results that the recommended algorithm for our service tends to politically amplify the right content.This survey does not find out if the algorithm actually has many conservative content on the user's timeline.However, it is said that in six of the seven countries investigated, the overall political amplifying the right content.
Specifically, the algorithm timeline in 7 countries (UK, the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, Japan) amplifies the political content of members of the Diet or some political organizations.A survey was conducted on whether or not only it was more amplified.
"I understand that it is happening, but I do not know why it is. I do not know why it will be. There is a user's intention, said, said," I understand that it is happening.He says that it depends on the behavior of people on the platform, but the cause is unknown. However, it is important to share this information with people.
"Twitter's home feed is not made up of a single algorithm," says Chowdhury, "How individuals and groups use Twitter and affect people's Twitter use.Cannot be modeled, and emphasizes the complexity of the Twitter system level that works together.
On top of that, if the algorithm does not have the property of creating biases, it is easy for some political people to spread the right side, that is, the conservative content that is easy to spread.It is speculated that you are good at spreading and succeeded in gaining support for the claim.
The META team is composed of well -known people, such as technology, algorithm ethics, and critics.The team stated that the priority of 2021 would open the research content to the public.However, it is difficult to actually convey the content of the research to the people accurately, and Chowdhury is worried that the background of this research will be omitted and incorrectly conveyed.He said he had a considerable discussion whether it was conveyed.
He also states that "algorithm amplification is not a problem by default," says that more research is needed to fully understand the cause of the bias.Researchers have pointed out that the survey is "I do not support the idea that personalization by algorithms will amplify more ideologies than many of the main political remarks."
The results of this study are also interesting in terms of how platform companies such as SNS are studying the idea that their algorithm has an unintended impact.Facebook has been criticized for its in -house research results on algorithms, and whose whistleblowers should return the default timeline to a mere time series, he pointed out.Despite the fact, Facebook shows an attitude to defend the algorithm.
Twitter has been trying to maintain a neutral position by implementing a bounty program about the algorithm for crops on the timeline, discovering the entire platform.
Source: Twitter