When Users Control the Algorithms: Values Expressed in Practices on Twitter.

Jenna Burrell, Zoe Kahn, Anne Jonas, and Daniel Griffin

November 1, 2019

Abstract

By examining tweets about the "Twitter algorithm" we consider the wide range of concerns and desires Twitter users express. We find a concern with fairness (narrowly construed) is present, particularly in the ways users complain that the platform enacts a political bias against conservatives.

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