Home feed promotes rightwing tweets over those from the left, internal research finds

Twitter has admitted it amplifies more tweets from rightwing politicians and news outlets than content from leftwing sources.
The
Social Media platform examined tweets from elected officials in seven countries – the
UK, US,
Canada,
France,
Germany,
Spain and
Japan. It also studied whether political content from news organisations was amplified on
Twitter, focusing primarily on US news sources such as
Fox News, the
New York Times and BuzzFeed.