First on MRC: Fed up with the legacy media dominating your timeline on X? Blame the algorithm, which continues to boost radical leftist media far more than their counterparts on the right. But buckle up; the incoming AI-led alternative could be equally bad.
A new Media Research Center study of X’s open-sourced code reveals that its algorithm favors left-leaning media outlets across the metrics used to determine which accounts to boost or censor, granting the left far more reach than media sources on the right.
Problematic outlets like The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and even MSNBC are all boosted. Meanwhile, their counterparts — Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, National Review, The Washington Times and Washington Examiner — were punished with lower ratings. Overall, X does not include a single right-leaning outlet in its top 25 media outlets boosted by the algorithm.
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