Elon is addressing this in the Twitter Space right now. "It definitely shouldn't be dividing people into Republican and Democrats; that makes no sense[...] you've identified something we should be getting rid of right away."

I'd love to see the exact date author_is_elon was added. Too bad they didn't publish the commit history

Here is a screenshot in case this changes later:

https://i.imgur.com/F8GSeyH.png

And, no, this wasn't in a merge-request, it was in the "main" branch of HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala.

  \*
  \* These author ID lists are used purely for metrics collection. We track how often we are
  \* serving Tweets from these authors and how often their tweets are being impressed by users.
  \* This helps us validate in our A/B experimentation platform that we do not ship changes
  \* that negatively impacts one group over others.
  \*

From: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/7f90d0ca342b92...

I would not be surprised if “author_is_elon” was added after he bought the company and worked the engineers too hard to figure out why his tweets don’t have a lot of engagement.

All in service of 'anti-bias' of course... /s

Haha, that's pretty funny, of course that's a thing

Wait ... that was not a joke? And they actually removed it from the repo about 4 hours later? That doesn't look good.

pretty sure Elon gets a boost in the algorithm. All okay - he's the owner of a private entity and can do as he pleases.