[WinstonSmith84]

I noticed that too, but it's likely we are not seeing the whole code base. "the algorithm", despite being possibly at the heart of many "interesting" things, is likely just one out of many other "modules" of the Twitter platform.

Also while it was just rumours so far, various well known Tweeter tweeting about this war have been complaining since last November that their tweets had suddenly much less engagements. This is just too much of a coincidence.