Twitter’s Algorithm is Bad for Democracy

The Algorithm Needs to Change

The reception toward the tech-mogul billionaire, Elon Musk’s, purchase of Twitter has been mixed.

On the one side, we have people who believe that Musk will “bring back” free speech to the platform. He promised, for example, to let former US President, Donald Trump, open up an account again.

On the other side, we have cynics (myself included) who claim that the only way Musk can redeem the platform is if he gets rid of the algorithm that has permeated all of…