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Sounds a bit far fetched

So changes in power users stats would also result in audience balancing?

Most likely the code was used for analytics and for tracking balance; Elon was a pain in the ass and asked to have custom analytics for his account and devs eventually added him as an audience to be able to get analytics about him easily. A bit dirty but it works.

Most likely the balancing code is somewhere else and it affects only republican / democrats.