Elon Musk says it's 'weird' that his name was found in Twitter's algorithm source code along with labels like 'Democrat' or 'Republican'
"I think it's weird," Musk said."This is the first time I'm learning of this by the way."
A screenshot of a branch of code in Twitter's recommendation algorithm that has since been removed on GitHub.Brian Wichers, a senior engineering manager at Twitter, said during the meeting that the specific categories were added to the algorithm about 10 years ago and are"not too important in how it's used throughout the code base."
Twitter released the code that decides which tweets show up on a user's For You timeline on Friday. Musk has been promising for months to increase transparency by open-sourcing the social media site's code. On Friday, the billionaire
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