Sky News reports that Elon Musk is 'boosting the British right' via algorithms on his X platform creating what they call the 'X-Effect' i.e. X = FR (squared).

[https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487]

For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.

Instead of wasting time on a nonsense platform like X, Sky's 'experts' would be better off investigating themselves for bias (e.g. their coverage of the Ukraine show).

FNN asked elusive Norwegian leader of the Davos-based Mysterons, Olaf Hurtigruten, for comment, and one of his spokespersons (aka Captain Orange) told us:

He's interfering in the free speech of our country [the UK] and that's why I think we should get a lot more serious and try to push back very hard.

We should be far more alarmed than people seem to be. This is impacting our politics, impacting people's views, and I think it's toxic to a good democracy.

Whoooohahahaha!

If anyone is relying on X for informed, unbiased content then they need their heads examined.

Just like anyone relying on the MSM or the BBC, recently caught out 'faking' news.

All the main social media players have admitted to algorithm manipulation and caving to government interference in what to promote so who in their right minds would go to these online bubbles for information?

There is no such thing as 'algorithmic bias' since all algorithms are by definition biased by their training data.

If you feed an AI training data that consists of solely of images of cancer tumours then don't expect it to quote Shakespeare because its bias is to help users understand cancer tumours based on how it was trained.

Sky claims that 'left-wing' content is disappearing from X so what do they expect the AI (i.e. X algorithms) to do when it is training itself on its own data that is now, by definition, more 'right wing'?

Bias content to the left to make up for it?

This is why all this 'algorithm analysis' is nonsense and what we should really care about is the training dataset and how that is changing (or being manipulated). But that is a little more difficult to do.

Anyway, if X disappeared tomorrow it would make zero difference to the lives of people who have more interesting things to do than like, tweet and post nonsense to social media.