Elon Musk's Twitter is now recommending Kremlin-linked accounts to users after restricting them last year, tests suggest
Elon Musk's Twitter is amplifying Kremlin-linked accounts including Vladimir Putin's presidential account after restricting them last year, testing revealed.showed accounts belonging to Putin, Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Russian embassy in Britain are appearing in Twitter's search results, timeline and recommendations.
"We will not amplify or recommend government accounts belonging to states that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict – whether Twitter is blocked in that country or not," the site wrote. This meant they wouldn't appear on Twitter's main search functions.The newspaper created a fresh account and found Russian state pages appeared in the algorithmically driven For You feed despite not following them.
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