Twitter‘s algorithm for automatically cropping images attached to tweets often doesn’t focus on the important content in them. A bother, for sure, but it seems like a minor one on the surface. However ...

LONDON – Twitter says it’s investigating why its picture-cropping algorithm sometimes prefers white faces to Black ones. The investigation comes after Twitter users noticed Black faces were less ...

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 ...

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, ...

Twitter's algorithm appeared to identify whether a tweet was authored by Elon Musk and labeled tweets as "Democrat," "Republican" or "power user." ...

Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted on Wednesday that the company is preparing to open source the microblogging platform’s algorithm as soon as “next week”. In response to a tweet urging the Twitter chief ...

The new Twitter CEO dismantled a division aiming to make the platform's algorithms more transparent and equitable as part of a round of layoffs. Adding credence to the idea that Musk would make ...

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People sick of seeing Elon Musk's tweets in the revamped "For You" section of Twitter will have to "stay tuned," according to the platform's owner and CEO. The controversial billionaire's tweets seem ...

Elon Musk said on Tuesday that Twitter will make its algorithm open source next week. The algorithm will leave people "disappointed at first" but will "improve rapidly," he said. In the past, Musk has ...