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Kyuubi4269 posted...

What exactly is "right-wing promotion"? Because Twitter became the new place for Tumblrites after the porn ban, but I guess their shitposting isn't really promotional, even when it's prominent.

Okay so looking at it, it's just saying right wing politicians are shown to people more. This makes sense when the left want to engage with right wing politician's tweets directly, but the right will more just talk about it in right wing spaces in a circlejerk.

twitter has a system where they amplify tweets so they show up higher on peoples feeds; this means what the study calls right wing content is boosted 167%... so if you are completely politically neutral and have no celebrity interests or any internet footprint whatsoever and go on twitter, you are 167% more likely to see Conservative party content if your location is detected as Canada.

These weightings are important, things like emergency broadcasts/missing childrens amber alerts get many thousands of times boosting so that people are more likely to see them.

Left wing parties in canada do enjoy a 43% amplification in tweet importance as well