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Interesting stuff, some good discussion on HN. Looks like they do have some process for categorizing users as Republican or Democrat. Allegedly this is only for metrics but I'm not exactly convinced. Hopefully we get some more info as people look through it.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/main/home-mixer/server/src/main/scala/com/twitter/home_mixer/functional_component/decorator/HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala#L224-L247