( "author_is_elon", candidate => candidate .getOrElse(AuthorIdFeature, None).contains(candidate.getOrElse(DDGStatsElonFeature, 0L))), (

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1. Rod Hilton (rodhilton@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Mar-2023 21:21:48 UTC Rod Hilton

   Want to know something interesting about the #TwitterCode release?

   Lots of people are zeroing in on this section of `HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala`, because it proves that Twitter 1.0 was factoring political alignment on a user-level into the timeline mixing algorithm.

   Nobody knows what weights are assigned to these attributes, but them being there shows the algorithm must have had some kind of bias, right?

   Guess what.

   Those lines were added *after* Elon bought the company.