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Source code for Twitter's Recommendation Algorithm
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/open-source/2023/twitter-recommendation-algorithm
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Add tag for War Misinformation #1742

Open NicholasFlorian opened 1 year ago

NicholasFlorian commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It would be nice to create a unique tag separate from civic misinformation to help document war misinformation. War misinformation is quite common on the internet and unverified information about conflicts should be tagged correctly.

Describe the solution you'd like A new tag should be created for war misinformation

Describe alternatives you've considered A clear and concise description of any alternative solutions or features you've considered.

Additional context I know that the Ukraine tag was deprecated in this PR so the tag should be removed permanently in refactoring. A proper tag should be added for all war misinformation.

TolstoyDotCom commented 1 year ago

Scroll through the tweets by yoyoel. He's (thankfully) not at Twitter any more, but people like him are still there. Do you really think pro-censorship airheads like him should be in charge of deciding what is and what isn't war "misinfo"? What about the Ukrainian, USA, or Russian militaries?

The proper way to deal with "misinfo" is to show it wrong. Twitter - by design - makes that difficult to do because they favor those with power while silencing those without power.

nobodyindustries commented 1 year ago

OK bots

vwellum commented 1 year ago

@ValZapod Please stop. GitHub is not a place for Russian propaganda. Government should really release these documents because so many tampered versions circle around the internet that it's hard to catch up to some people.

Lucienne1984 commented 1 year ago

There is a fundamental flaw with this plan. Nobody, not even the high commands of Ukraine or Russia, has exact information on what's going on. Everything you see is an approximation. Nobody, save for god if he exists, has the ability to give accurate info on the war, therefore nobody can fact-check properly to do this either. Obvious edits like what Valzapod posted can be spotted, but we don't even know if the unedited document is fully correct.

ghost commented 1 year ago

This is stupid. Why the hell would you trust Twitter of all platforms to accurately decide what is considered accurate information?