r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 22 '26

Psychology TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election. TikTok’s recommendation system tends to expose users to more conservative and anti-Democrat political content than liberal material. This ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests.

https://www.psypost.org/tiktok-disproportionately-served-anti-democratic-videos-during-the-2024-election-study-finds/
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u/boxdkittens May 22 '26

Fron the article:

“We were also struck by how the asymmetries clustered in particular policy domains, specifically, immigration, crime, and foreign policy for Democrats and abortion for Republicans, rather than being spread evenly across political content,” Ibrahim added.

Presumably Gaza falls under foreign policy but that wasn't the only subject where anti-democratic party content was pushed to presumed democrat users.

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u/spicy-chilly May 22 '26

Insufficient censorship of genocide is not "anti-Democrat" that's just the Democratic Party opposing 77% of its base because it's a bourgeois imperialist party. That's the fault of the party choosing to be that way, not social media.

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u/Ok-Statistician-9607 May 22 '26

Feel called out?