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Nicholas Begich: “Only Twitter, to my knowledge, has open sourced their…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 45:26

If I'm being suppressed or banned, then my speech doesn't carry any weight or meaning. And that's the problem with the way that they're applying these algorithms. And it's all done subtly, behind the scenes. Only Twitter, to my knowledge, has open sourced their algorithm for how they recommend what goes in somebody's feed. Everybody else is proprietary. And so, to your point, when they demonetize somebody, it deprioritizes that part of the algorithm. That person's content falls away, and the content creator may never know that their content never reached anyone. (45:26–45:30)

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Asserts that Twitter is the only platform to open source its recommendation algorithm.

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