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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has denied allegations that he had engineers artificially boost the reach of his posts after one of his tweets did not perform as well as a tweet by U.S. President Joe Biden.

Musk said on February 17 that media companies “incorrectly reported” that his tweet reach was boosted.

Musk said this was false and that a bug, which caused tweet replies to have enhanced reach, has been fixed.

Musk was referring to an article published on The Platformer which claimed that the algorithm “artificially boosted Musk’s tweets by a factor of 1,000” to beat all other users.

The “source” of the bogus Platformer article is a disgruntled employee who had been on paid time off for months, had already accepted a job at Google and felt the need to poison the well on the way out.

Twitter will be taking legal action against him,” said Musk. However, he said that changes were coming so as to allow Twitter users to adjust the algorithm to better match subjects they found compelling.

The Twitter CEO had previously shared a meme which made fun of users being forced to view his tweets.