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I know this is a low effort comment but I don't know how anyone takes The Guardian seriously anymore

If you know its low effort, I would encourage you to not post it. Or at least make an effort to add some substance to it, perhaps by enumerating the flaws in it?

Did the Guardian misrepresent their source material?

https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...

yes, the twitter research showed that right-wing tweets were organically more popular than left wing, and due to that organic popularity were more likely to be shown, but that's true of all popular things on twitter, it's got nothing to do with the content. the headline and article are intentionally misleading.

This is also the second time this article was shared instead of just posting the twitter blog post or the original study, considering we like to use original source material it's odd that this article keeps getting shared.

Genuinely asking because I don't know: what did they do wrong? I was under the impression that they're a good news source?

They're generally pretty decent IMO. As far as news sites these days go.

I'm also curious about what the parent's issues are with it.

The Guardian is one of the few good news sources left in the UK, after the Telegraph and others went full tabloid. Op-eds are often written by insane SJWs, but if you skip them the articles are often very good.

Their entire editorial is shaped by what the right-wing of the Labour Party want them to print [0]. They're as bad as any Murdoch rag.

[0] https://www.medialens.org/2020/the-people-have-spoken-bastar...

Yes.

Also - who cares about Twitter's bias and who gives a damn whether it's an AI algotrithm or something simple like if/else.

It's (or should be) assumed they make decisions for their own benefit. Fix: easy - don't use Twitter.

Why would anyone want to read about that and especially at the statist Guardian were journos never see a problem for which there should be no government (or globalist)-enforced solution?

  "Fix: easy - don't use Twitter."

Externalities are a problem still. When you're a truck driver and your employer gets 100 angry emails and phone calls because someone tweeted a picture of you doing an "OK sign" to a passing motorist, then you lose your job, not being on Twitter wasn't an option.

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