A deep dive into Elon Musk's censorship machine: what "The Algorithm" does

[TolstoyDotCom]

Describe the bug
The main bug is that Elon Musk is presented as Mr Free Speech even tho he's strongly pro-censorship.

See this Medium post by someone else for the details: "I Dug Through X’s Open-Source Algorithm to Understand My “Ghost Ban.” It Got Weird Fast."

To Do Something About This
Send the link to the media. Point out Twitter is helping the powerful suppress debate: all they have to do is block their critics to silences them. Repeat the list of reasons from the post why someone might block someone else. Ask the reporter if they think it's fair to silence people just because they state unpopular opinions.

And, any time you see someone saying Musk supports open debate, point out how wrong that is.

[nS-101]

The article itself claims multiple times that it's not trying to present the discoveries as unearthing some anti free speech machine or trying to suppress certain people, it literally says that because of the different visibility classifiers and labels designed to fight against spam bots and such, it could adversely affect real humans which is a real concern. I'm not saying that there might not be censorship issues on X but I think we have to be realistic here, especially considering most of the code is open sourced and viewable for literally everyone.

[TolstoyDotCom]

Do you work for Twitter/X/Musk in some way, Neil? There have been extensive censorship issues on Twitter for over a decade. You can see that today just by looking at all the complaints on Reddit and even LinkedIn.

If you're still confused, have a chat with Grok. For instance, here's Elon's own AI admitting that Elon is technically-incompetent:

https://imgur.com/a/kpn7uV3

It gets even darker, with other AIs comparing Musk's censorship machine to McCarthy, Stalin, Hitler, etc etc.