> They say X/Twitter is full of people spreading hate speech.
I've recently created a brand new account on X for a project. Looking at what was being recommended to the brand-new account with no interactions or likes or anything, they are not wrong.
Within the first 15 recommended posts or so there was
- a post about how Canada is overrun by Indians
- a post about how Melbourne is overrun by n-worders (they replaced the Gs with £s)
- a post about how a trans person is ugly
- 2 "nudes in bio" bot posts. This was not hate speech, and arguably the most positive posts I got.
This is not counting the Elon posts and the Trump posts, which were the first and second thing that got recommended. Nor the posts from Elon Musk imitators, who I assume are trying to take advantage of the fact that Elon Musk gets special treatment from the algorithm.
When you create a new account, X asks you to follow an account to determine what your interests are. I picked NASA. I did not get recommended a single space photo.
I've recently created a brand new account on X for a project. Looking at what was being recommended to the brand-new account with no interactions or likes or anything, they are not wrong.