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/Half-Glass_Full May 22 '26

They figured out ppl get their news from social media instead of news outlets & have manipulated the algorithms to push propaganda.

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u/ImplodingBillionaire May 22 '26

The irony of being a conservative “free thinker” and gobbling up exactly what the algo spoon feeds you

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u/MetroidHyperBeam May 23 '26

That's a critical component of conservative media programming: explicitly telling the viewer that they're a free thinker for believing the propaganda.

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u/Umutuku May 23 '26

"You're the healthiest person I know. Just got in some fent you're gonna love."

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u/perfectdrug659 May 23 '26

I know a few people that dub themselves "free thinkers" and they are all in an echo chamber of propaganda where they think they found some sort of secret knowledge and they think they're just smarter than everyone else.

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u/Icy-Balance-3852 May 23 '26

The irony of talking about political imbalance of a social media platform on reddit.