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**What's Happening?** Twitter currently prioritizes tweets with high engagement, such as likes, retweets, and comments, in users' timelines and search results. While this may seem like a good way to...

**Describe the bug** You just did a forced update of the repo, this is very uncommon for transparent projects in the Public Interest. All of this is very confusing also...

![safety_2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/86486152/229261124-4458ce14-815b-457e-be5e-c967af44cd88.png) ![safety_1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/86486152/229261127-d8d5038f-c67b-4e3a-8fb1-67c63d2c1ce8.png) It is absolutely necessary to have more context into how these !["Tweet Safety Labels"](https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilitylib/src/main/scala/com/twitter/visibility/models/TweetSafetyLabel.scala) have been used to alter !["Violation Levels"](https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/visibilitylib/src/main/scala/com/twitter/visibility/models/ViolationLevel.scala) along with their associated metadata. I'm not...

**Descriptions in the README.** The descriptions in the README are not clear enough, and the diagrams are too abstract. They need more information for people to understand them better. I...

documentation

Firstly, I'd like to congratulate Twitter for making this huge step of transparency and which I believe is certainly a step in the right direction. I'd just like to ask,...

**Describe the bug** The current Bazel build files are inconsistent and appear to rely on an internal wrapper and internal rulesets which cannot be found in an open-source context. At...

project maintenance

The Earlybird Light Ranker README provides a good overview of the current system, but one possible improvement would be to include a section on the limitations and challenges faced by...

documentation

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** I believe one should be able to block certain geographical regions from displaying our content, for privacy or targeting reasons...

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.** A properly configured editor will format-on-save to ensure a consistent coding style. However, when entering this monorepo, there's no information...

project maintenance

**Describe the bug** if a `UnicodeEncodeError` is raised when calling `decode_str_or_unicode()`, the variable `fname` will not be defined, and an `UnboundLocalError` will be raised when trying to append it to...