Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal Google Your News Update

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Zoe Thomas: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, October 4th. I'm Zoe ...
The Atlantic

The New ‘Transparent’ Twitter Isn’t Very Transparent

Elon Musk offered a rare look into the social platform’s algorithm. Experts say you shouldn’t take it too seriously. The move was unprecedented, but this probably won’t go down as a great day in the ...
Ars Technica

Twitter posts the code it claims determines which tweets people see, and why

Twitter has made good on one of CEO Elon Musk's many promises, posting on a Friday afternoon what it claims is the code for its tweet recommendation algorithm on GitHub. The code, posted under a GNU ...
Bleeping Computer

Twitter open-sources recommendation algorithm code

Twitter announced on Friday that it's open-sourcing the code behind the recommendation algorithm the platform uses to select the contents of the users' For You timeline. However, the code made public ...
Mashable

Twitter's algorithm specifically tracks how Elon Musk's tweets are doing

Twitter has released part of its source code for its recommendation algorithm. It shows how it specifically tracks how Elon Musk's tweets are doing. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via ...