Recently, disturbing researches, leaks, documents and confessions about social media platforms have started to appear frequently. In addition to some researches and documents that have been revealed about the harm on people, some information is reaching the public that social media platforms try to interfere with people’s political or social choices and apply double standards on various issues.
Recently, it was revealed that Facebook, with an application called XCheck, was able to share posts that violated the community rules without being subject to any sanctions, and the oversight board accused Facebook of not being transparent and not sharing enough information. In the previous months, the image cropping mechanism applied by the Twitter algorithm for black citizens caused controversy. It is not known whether these are errors caused by algorithms or voluntary social media policies, but it is obvious that they are starting to get annoying.
Highlights the posts of right-wing political and media organizations
In the research conducted by Twitter by examining the political content of news organizations of 7 countries, including the USA, Canada, England, France, Germany, Spain and Japan, between April 1 and August 15, 2020, the shares of Twitter from right-wing political parties and news organizations became more visible. reportedly brought. Twitter argued that they were not aware of this and that it was carried out by the algorithm.
Reaching the findings that their systems do not take political ideology into consideration when making suggestions and therefore people who are interested in the same political formation are not equally prominent, Twitter said, “It was understood that right-leaning news organizations were more prominent by our algorithms when compared to left-leaning news organizations.” As a result of the research, it was stated that this finding was not encountered in Germany. Twitter said their goal is to reduce all forms of inequality.
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