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Originally Posted by Hehe

I'm going to say this here once for all before we drag this further.

I might seem right-leaning, but the truth is, I am really at the center. I follow politicians from both sides of spectrum and reads from publications on both sides as well.

My believe is that, only by taking stories from both sides, and see the evidences myself (whenever possible), will I be able to reach a decent conclusion on any topic.

Why do I know Engadget and Wired are biased? I read them almost on a daily basis. I have them both in my bookmark and subscribed to my Apple News feed. There is a particular direction that they take in their editorial approach and all I can say is that it's certainly not neutral.

And whenever something that interests me comes up, I try to understand the same story from both sides of the argument. Don't take information for granted.

Have I even linked to any right-leaning media? Nop. Because I don't trust them just like I don't trust left-leaning media. I have always been in the middle. Dare I say slightly left in the grand scheme of things. It's just the progressive left has moved so far left, that I'm no longer on the left side of the middle point.

"Lefties" in this thread... what I suggest you to do... before you post any link to any leftie publication to even try to make an argument, try to search the very same topic on the rightie publication and see what they say about the same topic. And you will see the problem with media nowadays. They lack any specificity to the topic.

Read again to those articles you have linked. Say talking about Twitter algorithm... what do they say?

Oh... it boosts topics about righties!
But they don't say the same thing goes to topics about lefties.

Oh... Twitter published the source code of algorithm! However, we can't confirm whether there's something else going on that we don't know!

How about the fact that neither can you confirm that nothing else is going on.

They just take a part of the information and run their narrative with it.

The same reason why when I said "Most people are lazy" and Westopher interpreted as "poor people are lazy". He took the piece of information I posted, overlapped it onto his narrative, and run with it.

Is it anywhere near to what I actually posted? No. Is it fake? Not really... because I said most... and that includes poor and rich people. One needs to get to the source of it and really understand before arriving to a conclusion.

I did read through the source code posted publicly. Granted, my programming skill might not be able to understand 100% of every detail in it. But what I did get was 100% of the framework that governs the algorithm and the detail just fills all the puzzles in between. And I didn't see any evidence that favors one side or the other. And assuming that's the code that Twitter is running... the only variable is the user him/herself. It's all depends on the user's preference and content gets pushed accordingly.

Wired is left leaning now? Come on, I've never heard anyone say that

https://www.allsides.com/news-source...%20of%20Center.

It's rated as center.

You're too much bud.