New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- X has taken a major step towards transparency by making its recommendation algorithm publicly available, allowing anyone to examine how content is ranked and surfaced on the platform.

The social media company confirmed that its core feed ranking system has been open-sourced, with the full codebase published on GitHub. The move means developers, researchers and users can now inspect the logic that determines which posts appear in their feeds, including both organic content and paid advertisements.

The announcement was made by X owner Elon Musk, who acknowledged that the current system is far from perfect. He described the existing algorithm as unsophisticated and in need of significant improvement, but said opening ...