Of all the grand ideas that Elon Musk has for Twitter, the one that he’s pitched most fervently is making the platform’s algorithms open source. The Tesla tycoon proposed the plan before his buyout ...

On March 24, weeks before he offered to buy Twitter, Elon Musk posted a poll on the social media platform: “Twitter algorithm should be open source,” he wrote, with options for users to vote “yes” or ...

Twitter said in April that it was undertaking a new effort to study algorithmic fairness on its platform and whether its algorithms contribute to “unintentional harms.” As part of that work, the ...

When Elon Musk first proposed taking over Twitter, one the first changes he claimed he'd make would be “open-sourcing” Twitter’s algorithm. Last week, Twitter finally followed through on that promise, ...

Ed Ho (@mrdonut), vice-president of engineering at Twitter, wrote in a blog that the company is working to make Twitter safer, including introducing updates that leverage their technology to root out ...

Twitter recently released its algorithm source code on GitHub, which was met with debate and controversy. The release comes to increase transparency and give users a chance to offer feedback on how ...

Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted on Wednesday that the company is preparing to open source the microblogging platform’s algorithm as soon as “next week”. In response to a tweet urging the Twitter chief ...

Twitter’s algorithms are disproportionately boosting right-leaning news outlets and conservative content, a new study by the company finds. And Twitter doesn’t really know why. The social media giant ...

Twitter has published the results from a study that analyzed its algorithms to explore potential political bias. The company notes that users who have an algorithmically sorted home timeline will see ...

On March 24, weeks before he offered to buy Twitter, Elon Musk posted a poll on the social media platform: “Twitter algorithm should be open source,” he wrote, with options for users to vote “yes” or ...

Today is the day: In an effort to boost transparency between the public and the social media platform, CEO Elon Musk has made Twitter’s recommendation algorithm open source…for some reason. It would ...

Anonymous tweeters may have just become a little less anonymous. Researchers have put together an algorithm that can predict the gender of a tweeter based solely on the 140 characters they choose to ...