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Photo: Leon Neal (Getty Images)It’s a good day to be a mainstream politically conservative party or a right-leaning news outlet on Twitter. The company has released the results of a study analyzing algorithmic amplification of political content on the platform, which affirms what had already been suspected by some: The political right does really well on Twitter. Twitter’s study, led by the company’s Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team, or META, reviewed millions of tweets of elected officials in seven countries— Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, the UK, and the U.S.—as well as hundreds of millions of tweets containing links to articles from news outlets. In all countries except Germany, the company found that tweets posted by the political right were amplified more than those posted by the political left. When it comes to news outlets, the same thing occurred. (The company analyzed the links to content from news outlets, not tweets by the news outlets themselves). Right-leaning news outlets received more algorithmic amplification than left-leaning news outlets. Twitter didn’t classify news outlets as left-leaning or right-leaning according to its own criteria, but rather used a classification from third-party researchers.The study determined that certain political content is amplified on…

from my point of view/Shutterstock Take a quick scroll through Twitter, and chances are you'll come across all kinds of different incidents of mansplaining. The latest episode that's unfolding on the social media platform is all about deviled eggs that were being discussed on a date, and people are finding the whole thing absolutely hysterical. One Twitter user, Kristen Arnett, tweeted, "man at this bar is describing in great detail exactly what a deviled egg is to his date, a woman who already told him twice that she's had them before." The tweet was shared on October 20, and within a day, the tweet has already earned more than 80,000 likes and continues to grow. It has even been retweeted more than 2,800 times and quote-tweeted more than 400 times. It's definitely a viral moment people are reveling in. But Arnett did not just stop there. She continued to live-tweet the conversation as it happened. This is how other people responded fizkes/Shutterstock Arnett tweeted again. "So, it's like a regular egg, right? But it's not," she wrote. Then she added, "have you heard of an espresso martini" followed by "oh BUDDY I have missed happy hour, truly a slice of…