TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race
A study found TikTok's algorithm recommended more Republican-aligned content during the 2024 US election. Republican accounts saw more like-minded content, while Democratic accounts were shown more opposing views. This suggests a pro-Republican skew.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/217535
Ditch the app. It's showing all the signs of turning into a right-wing racist cesspool like so many other social media apps before it.
There are other options.
Ditch the app.
I'm fairly certain that TikTok plays an instrumental role in the whole brainwashing machinery. The content renders its users incapable of dealing with content that takes longer than 20s to consume. Fact checking however, requires a lot more effort. I just had a fight with my brother. He once was a man that read a shit ton of books and had the patience to sit through epic movies and was culturally adequately informed. Now his 56 year old ass sits on the couch, swiping through one TikTok video after the other and blindly repeats all the "felt truths". When confronted with evidence showing the contrary, he simply rejects those sources as left propaganda. He doesn't even put in an ounce of effort. The man is totally lost and I'm fucking sad as hell about it. He's pretty much the only family I have, other than my wife and daughter. This is in Germany by the way. We're not too far away from the situation in the US.
Extremely sorry this is happening to you. I know some young men who are "not political" and who if you ask them would say they "don't follow politics", yet every dog whistle republican talking point has somehow been demonstrated to them via TikTok without them knowing/noticing. You talk about healthcare or education and it's always "I saw a TikTok and it said that no one actually needs to go to a doctor or school". It's just something the "nanny state" says you should do. Like, how are they so unable to what's happening to them? Then they say it's not political because it's just one persons opinion. Then when you point out that it's affecting their politics and everything is inherently political, all the sudden you're the problem trying to convince them to vote when they don't want to or to vote against Trump or whatever. Normally, I can have a normal conversation with people who disagree with me but I legitimately cannot predict/understand what conclusions they will jump to. I've never had such unorganized, unproductive conversations in my life. Best of luck to you and your family.
Duh, of course CCP, wants mango moron as Prez. He's a spineless POS that is all lies and no action.
CCP will feel free to run over Taiwan and the islands they want to take from Japan.
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s \s \s
People are in such a rush to confirm their own biases that they'll upvote a wacky study from the UAE based on 3 states and AI judges.
We know.
Indeed, deleted my account when I notified this.
before or after the democrats tried to shut it down?
The resposes here are amazing. It's stunning how quickly the memoryholing is kicking in.
sorry in advance for the strays you'll catch for saying as much.. yeah, its heavily brigaded/astroturfed just about everywhere you go, nowadays. we're to believe this is the common sentiment because by god, look at how many downvotes they can muster... i'm ambivalent, the truth isn't something they can bully out of my hands
Are you lying or just stupid? Because it was definitely trump that shut it down
"On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down."
Your grasp of recent history is mind boggling stupid to have ignored what happened, literally 5 years ago when trump and the GOP created the law and EO to shut down TikTok.
As a troll, you're not even remotely believable. Go back to your cave, and try again.
"On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down."
It's freedom of speech. If people want a pro-Republican bias in the algorithm they should be allowed to have that without interference from the US government.
Algorithms get speech protections?
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc only make you think you have speech, in reality what you post is largely ignored your are just a recipient of what the algorithm serves you and in case of TikTok, algorithm serves you whatever CCP decides.
I'm not saying Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are good either, they do the same thing and you should quit all.