Twitter ’s systems unfairly filtered 600,000 accounts including some belonging to members of Congress, chief executive Jack Dorsey has admitted. Twitter’s systems unfairly filtered 600,000 accounts including some belonging to members of Congress, chief executive Jack Dorsey has admitted. — jack (@jack) September 5, 2018“Our algorithms were unfairly filtering 600,000 accounts, including some members of Congress, from our search auto-complete and latest results. But how did it happen?”However, Mr Dorsey did not provide specific numbers for the Republican Congress members versus Democratic Congress members that were filtered out by the process. In evidence released before that hearing, Mr Dorsey said Twitter does not “shadow-ban anyone based on political ideology”.

Source: Irish Independent September 06, 2018 09:11 UTC