Elon Musk owned social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days. Musk said in his post on X that the algorithm will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help users understand what has changed.
“This will be repeated every 4 weeks, with comprehensive developer notes, to help you understand what changed,” Musk wrote on X.
The billionaire, however, didn’t say why X was making its algorithm open source. He and the company have clashed several times with regulators over content being shown to users.
Musk has promised in recent years to make some of X’s algorithms public, but the follow-through has been spotty.
Some X users had previously complained that they were receiving fewer posts on the social media platform from people they follow. In October, Musk confirmed in a post on X that the company had found a “significant bug” in the platform’s “For You” algorithm and pledged a fix.
In September, Musk wrote that the goal was for X’s recommendation engine to “be purely AI” and that the company would share its open source algorithm about every two weeks.
Earlier this week, the European Commission decided to extend a retention order sent to X last year, which related to algorithms and dissemination of illegal content, prolonging it to the end of 2026.
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