The Scramble To Save Twitter S Research From Elon Musk
By early October last year, as Elon Musk faced a court deadline to complete his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the company’s newest research was almost ready. It showed that a machine-learning program incorrectly demoted some tweets mentioning any of 350 terms related to identity, politics, or sexuality, including “gay,” “Muslim,” and “deaf,” because a system intended to limit views of tweets slurring marginalized groups also impeded posts celebrating those communities....