{"id":375109,"date":"2026-08-14T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375109"},"modified":"2026-08-14T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:12:05","slug":"x-opens-up-its-source-code-this-is-how-we-can-find-out-whether-our-account-is-being-penalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/x-opens-up-its-source-code-this-is-how-we-can-find-out-whether-our-account-is-being-penalized\/","title":{"rendered":"X opens up its source code: this is how we can find out whether our account is being penalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s social network, X, has decided to make a large part of its source code public, and now we can understand much better how the feed system works. As reported by TechCrunch, X has published on GitHub<\/a> the code for its \u201cFor You\u201d feed and also that of its ranking engine. Now we can find out why we see some posts before others<\/strong>, but we can go much further, because we can find out whether our account is shadowbanned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We can see how X classifies our posts<\/h2>\n\n

The repository, under an Apache v2 license, includes the models, the filters, and the parameters. By comparison, we’re looking at a codebase between 10 and 15 times larger than the previous one<\/strong>, which gives us much more information about how X works. But how can we find out whether our account has some kind of restriction?<\/p>\n\n

Easy. In the \u201cUnder the Hood\u201d section, within the settings, it lets us download a JSON file. That file will show the labels applied to our account or to our posts over the last month<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

For now this system is rolling out gradually and requires an account that is at least a year old and has made 10 posts in the last month. If we have access, or as availability increases,\u00a0we’ll be able to feed the JSON to a language model to see what’s going on<\/strong>, pointing it to X’s public repository on GitHub so it knows how to interpret the information.<\/p>\n\n

While the debate over the use of our data on X goes on, we now have more information to\u00a0audit the algorithm and see how it really affects our account<\/strong>. Clearly, that’s good news and a very important change for the\u00a0conversation about the platform.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s social network, X, has decided to make a large part of its source code public, and now we can understand much better how the feed system works. As reported by TechCrunch, X has published on GitHub the code for its \u201cFor You\u201d feed and also that of its ranking engine. Now we can … Continue reading “X opens up its source code: this is how we can find out whether our account is being penalized”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9262,"featured_media":375108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-375109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375110,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375109\/revisions\/375110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375109"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375109"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375109"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}