I only follow leftists (and some libs) on my burner account, but Twitter's algorithm constantly pushes conservative and fash tweets to the top of my home page.
It doesn't seem to be based on engagement either because these tweets have less than 10k likes/1000's of comments, while the lefty and lib tweets have way more than that but get pushed to the bottom. I barely see any tweets from people I actually follow unless I go directly to their pages.
It's absolutely based on engagement. Controversy is engagement. Popular things aren't. Engagement is money, so you see things you hate instead of things you like. Now your eyes are on the platform for a few seconds longer. Good thing there are no negative consequences involved here at all.
I only follow leftists (and some libs) on my burner account, but Twitter's algorithm constantly pushes conservative and fash tweets to the top of my home page.
It doesn't seem to be based on engagement either because these tweets have less than 10k likes/1000's of comments, while the lefty and lib tweets have way more than that but get pushed to the bottom. I barely see any tweets from people I actually follow unless I go directly to their pages.
It's absolutely based on engagement. Controversy is engagement. Popular things aren't. Engagement is money, so you see things you hate instead of things you like. Now your eyes are on the platform for a few seconds longer. Good thing there are no negative consequences involved here at all.