BiasMedium
Twitter Recommender System Amplified Right-Leaning Tweets
- Occurred
- Feb 10, 2016
- Published
- Aug 1, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Twitter’s “Home” timeline algorithm was revealed by its internal researchers to have amplified tweets and news of rightwing politicians and organizations more than leftwing ones in six out of seven studied countries.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Twitter left-leaning politicians
- Twitter left-leaning news organizations
- Twitter left-leaning users
- X (Twitter) users
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Algorithmic bias in content amplification causing political skew without direct physical harm or legal action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8