Congress: TikTok Users Being 'Radicalized' By Seeing Multiple Viewpoints
Congress: TikTok Users Being 'Radicalized' By Seeing Multiple Viewpoints
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Congress: TikTok Users Being 'Radicalized' By Seeing Multiple Viewpoints
Classified report warns of dangerous exposure to different perspectives
This one isn't going to age well.
Based on my experience, having never used TT myself, but married to someone who does and friends with people who do...
You DON'T really get different perspectives. In ANY of those platform styles.
It's literally designed to show you whatever you engage most with, and usually that's "things that get you angry" regardless of who you are. For my wife, it's "here's how my family is shitty/aita" for some of my friends it's "here's how I was being misgendered/deadnamed/not accepted" and for some people I know, it's "here's a person who is not cis/white/christian/male existing in my general area"
I guess you get the different perspectives if you know a wide variety of people who use it and don't actually use it yourself?
Algorithms are cancer. I've always been very left-leaning, but the moment I immigrated to western Canada, YouTube started trying to spoon-feed me Jordan Peterson and other right-wing trash. I've trained it since to thoroughly fuck off, but it was very eye-opening.
I think it has a stronger leftist pipeline than other platforms and so is better able to steer someone that way if they're susceptible to it. Same goes with neo-nazi shit but thats something already available on other platforms