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Remove political bias

Open byemc opened this issue 2 years ago • 12 comments

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I’m always frustrated when random politicians i don’t follow or care about turn up in my feed.

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Removing political bias from the feed. I’m not saying to remove politicians from the algo, but to not make it biased towards them.

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Using the Following feed i guess

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byemc avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 byemc

I agree, I see so many accounts I wouldn't follow in a million years in my feed

nikolqy avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 nikolqy

and by "political bias" you mean "bias towards politics" rather than "bias toward a particular political view"?

have you examined the algorithm to determine that there is something (other than the behavior of other users) that makes politicians get more attention than they deserve?

brandonzylstra avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 brandonzylstra

100% agree, i stopped using twitter because of the politics getting thrust into my feed

ivyturner avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 ivyturner

AND remove NSFW

ericjze avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 ericjze

AND remove NSFW

No, just remove political bias. Let the booties stay. Fly freee.

alex-redacted avatar Mar 31 '23 20:03 alex-redacted

AND remove NSFW

Maybe enforce content warnings, but if you really think about it removing NSFW would be a bad idea

byemc avatar Mar 31 '23 21:03 byemc

The algorithm is serving you content that it deems you might like. Therefore, if you have any political side it will be biased to the side you've shown to like.

ghost avatar Mar 31 '23 21:03 ghost

I think there is already a PR for this

Abastien1734 avatar Mar 31 '23 21:03 Abastien1734

AND remove NSFW

13 / 50 year old horny people really disliked this....

ericjze avatar Mar 31 '23 21:03 ericjze

The algorithm is serving you content that it deems you might like. Therefore, if you have any political side it will be biased to the side you've shown to like.

Let me do you one better: The Twitter algorithm serves you content it thinks you will engage with. That doesn't mean you'll like it, it means you'll click, comment on, QRT, and whatnot. Not only that, but if the people you follow engage with content that strikes their emotions? Say, something that upsets them [politically, socially, etc]? You aren't going to escape it, regardless of how many phrases and hashtags you mark as don't show me this crud.

I would personally like to see no political crap on my timeline unless it's news and not spun news, either.

alex-redacted avatar Apr 01 '23 01:04 alex-redacted

The algorithm is serving you content that it deems you might like. Therefore, if you have any political side it will be biased to the side you've shown to like.

Let me do you one better: The Twitter algorithm serves you content it thinks you will engage with. That doesn't mean you'll like it, it means you'll click, comment on, QRT, and whatnot. Not only that, but if the people you follow engage with content that strikes their emotions? Say, something that upsets them [politically, socially, etc]? You aren't going to escape it, regardless of how many phrases and hashtags you mark as don't show me this crud.

I would personally like to see no political crap on my timeline unless it's news and not spun news, either.

they/them, not readin

ericjze avatar Apr 01 '23 04:04 ericjze

There is significant work going on with Leena (and all...) regarding mitigating gender-based biases.

For the political aspect, I think it's better to relate directly to your mating partner(s).

YMMV.

aloiscochard avatar Apr 13 '23 13:04 aloiscochard