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Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm (www.irishtimes.com)
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The move follows complaints from politicians in Germany that X’s algorithm is promoting content by the far right in advance of the country’s February 23rd elections. Mr Musk has come out in favour of the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, arguing that it will save Germany.

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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 9 points 1 month ago

just fucking ban twitter already

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They also need to order them to make the UX let users choose the algorithm

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Mr. skuM

[–] GenuineGeniusGenie@lemmings.world 1 points 1 month ago