X changed its algorithm to try and fix what might be its biggest problem

X has tweaked its algorithm to try and fix what might be its biggest problem.The company, owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter, said that it was changing the way it works to try and make the site less of a “battleground”.In recent years, X has received sustained criticism for failing to cultivate community and instead rewarding divisive and sometimes confusing posts by pushing them up its feed.Now, the company says that it is aware of that problem and has attempted to fix it by adding more data to the algorithm that chooses what posts are shown as a user scrolls.“We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back),” said Nikita Bier, the company’s head of product. “We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it m