WSJ: X’s Algorithm Forces Cultist Content On New Users

The Wall Street Journal reports:

New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed with political content and fed a steady diet of posts that lean toward Donald Trump and that sow doubt about the integrity of the Nov. 5 election, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

The Journal created accounts on the social-media platform that only signaled an affinity for nonpolitical subjects, but a majority of the posts in their For You feed were partisan or related to the election.

“If that cringe, dingbat, zero-votes, airhead Kamala Harris is able to cheat enough to win the presidency—the USA is over,” wrote catturd2 in a post served to nearly all of the Journal’s newly created accounts.

Read the full article. Meanwhile Republicans are suing Google over claims that cultists are being censored.

New X users with interests in topics such as crafts, sports and cooking are being blanketed with political content and fed a steady diet of posts that lean toward Trump and that sow doubt about the integrity of the election, a @WSJ analysis found. https://t.co/0FCnGcdtLb

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) October 29, 2024