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Deflating Balloon-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Is There an Elon Musk Part of the Algorithm?

CNN's John Sutter says he thinks Twitter fired the guy who complained about his feed being dominated by conservatives. The techies at Twitter have fixed the algorithm so that there's just a special Elon Musk part of it, according to Sutter. There is an exemption in the algorithm for him because he whined so much when both he and Joe Biden tweeted that they supported the Eagles in the Super Bowl. That doesn't pollute the whole algorithm. It actually liked the program reads like if user is Elon Musk, I'm not kidding.

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