Biased Twitter Algorithm Yet Again

The revelation was uncovered as the social media behemoth was examining how its algorithm suggests political information to users, according to the company. Twitter has faced accusations of anti-conservative bias in the past.

Researchers then compared the tweets that were magnified more on an algorithmically ordered feed to those that were amplified more on a reverse-chronological stream, both of which consumers can access.

They discovered that mainstream political right parties and outlets had higher degrees of "algorithmic amplification" than their left-wing equivalents

The platform announced in April that it was doing research to see if its algorithms were causing "unintentional injuries."In May, the business admitted that its image-cropping algorithm had flaws that favored white people over black people and women over men.