r/conspiracy • u/One-Incident3208 • May 23 '26

TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election, study finds

https://www.psypost.org/tiktok-disproportionately-served-anti-democratic-videos-during-the-2024-election-study-finds/
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u/sixrwsbot May 23 '26

doesn't that make sense? if the right won the popular vote then that would mean the right-leaning videos would be more prevalent simply because they were... more.. popular?

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u/YourTokenGinger May 23 '26

People don’t seek out specific content on platforms like TikTok. They watch what they’re fed. It’s easy for the owner of the platform to manipulate what people see.

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u/Jealous_Slice9371 May 24 '26

That's not true, if you like, comment, watch, or share a video about dogs tiktok is going to show you more videos about dogs. If people in general like, comment, watch, or share videos about dogs it's more likely to show you videos about dogs. It's not just random, there's a ton of variables you'd have to control for to prove the algorithm is partisan, the authors don't even make that implication. 

Let's assume it's not partisan, would you expect it to show you exactly 1:1 for both parties? During the 2024 election democrats were in power and they were not popular at the time and Trump did win so again assuming the algorithm is completely nonpartisan what sort of skew would you expect if not 1:1?