Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13
A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election.
Equally, the pair add, Republican-leaning posts were found to have enjoyed a more significant boost in terms of their visibility to users, and engagements were also vastly higher than those on Democrat-leaning posts, although both sides saw fairly even increases. Republican-leaning posts started off with markedly higher counts on all metrics to start with, however.
What followed was an even bigger increase in the number of retweets Musk's posts received – 237.94 percent after July 13. Other users also saw an increase, but only by 152.15 percent. Similar findings were made when looking at the number of times his posts were favorited. According to the visualized data in the paper, Republican accounts received massive view count increases toward the end of October while those of Democrat accounts tailed off.
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