Twitter Highlights Right-wing Media Organizations

Recently, on social media platforms, troubling research, leaks, documents, confessions began to appear frequently. In addition to some researches and documents that have been revealed about the harms on people, social media platforms’ influence on people’s political or social choices. to intervene Some information is reaching the public that he works and applies double standards on various issues.

It has recently emerged that Facebook, with an application called XCheck, can share posts that violate the community rules without being subject to any sanctions, and the oversight board accused Facebook of not being transparent and not sharing enough information. In the previous months, the image cropping mechanism applied by the Twitter algorithm for black citizens caused controversy. Are these errors caused by algorithms? voluntary social media policies are unknown, but it is obvious that it is starting to annoy.

Highlights the posts of right-wing political and media organizations

By Twitter from April 1 to August 15, 2020 in the USA, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Japan. 7 countries In the research conducted by examining the political content of news organizations, it was found that Twitter from right-wing political parties and news organizations the shares made more visible was stated to have been made. Twitter argued that they were not aware of this and that it was carried out by the algorithm.

Reaching the findings that their systems do not take political ideology into consideration when making suggestions, and therefore, people who are interested in the same political formation are not equally prominent.Right-leaning news organizations were found to be more prominent by our algorithms compared to left-leaning news organizations.i” he stated. As a result of the research, it was stated that this finding was not encountered in Germany. Twitter aims to reduce all forms of inequality said that.