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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and 'crime scene'

In documents published especially since December 2022, it was revealed that Twitter and the US carried out psychological warfare operations, spreading some topics while covering some, and censoring some while increasing the visibility of some others.

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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and crime scene

The elections in Türkiye were recently described by the United States as "the most important event of the year". Again, the desires and efforts of the US to change the government in Türkiye have been known for a long time.

Accounts and posts making propaganda for FETO and PKK in Türkiye have started to appear frequently in front of Twitter users.

Although users do not follow these accounts, they have come across these posts more frequently during the selection process.

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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and crime scene

Especially in the last month, the visibility and interaction of the accounts that support Erdoğan has been reduced.

On the other hand, opposition leaders, opposition accounts, even FETO and PKK accounts started to be suggested by the Twitter algorithm.

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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and crime scene

In these days when the election process is started, it is seen that the presidential candidate Kılıçdaroğlu's account is also in this interaction operation.

Kılıçdaroğlu's posts are forcibly shown to users even if they are not followed.

While the opposition accounts in Türkiye are supported with advertising and interaction for free in this way, interaction restrictions and censorship are applied to accounts close to President Erdogan.

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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and crime scene

All of this is happening when accounts close to Erdoğan can't advertise on Twitter, even for money.

Upon the criticism, Elon Musk announced that the tweet recommendation algorithm will be available as open source on March 31.

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Manipulative algorithm of Twitter: Both social media and crime scene

In his statements, Musk describes the tweet recommendation algorithm as "quite complex" and states that they found too many stupid things.

This raises suspicions that content and users can still be interfered with by the Pentagon and Twitter Regional Offices, and that this cannot be prevented.