A good article in which the author researched how Twitter’s algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content.

Quote: “Adhering to my guidelines to follow accounts suggested by the algorithm, I clicked the “follow” button. This was the first time I was recommended content adjacent to alt-right and “manosphere” ideology. Prior to that, it was all history related. After “liking” approximately 100 Tweets, however, I saw that the accounts suggested to me were becoming increasingly political, and I was specifically being recommended accounts run by internet political commentators – as opposed to professional politicians or journalists. I cannot definitively call this observation evidence of being led down an alt-right pipeline, but it was interesting to note that those were the types of accounts suggested to me by the Twitter algorithm.”

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    2 months ago

    Same if you’re interested in religion. There’s a lot of anti semetism about. Personally I think trad_west isn’t too bad. But I follow them on Instagram, not twitter.

    Also saw them making fun of Andrew Tate and people who degrade women.