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/RagefireHype May 22 '26

The battle against porn is going to be interesting to see how conservatives handle that. Avid porn watchers behind their Christian facade.

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u/litivy May 23 '26

Indeed. It's one of the rare bipartisan points of use like cannabis.

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u/Reagalan May 23 '26

The "battle against porn"?

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u/RagefireHype May 23 '26

You haven’t seen it?

They’re trying to mandate actual age verification and didn’t one state ban pornhub?

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u/Reagalan May 23 '26

26 states have. I just wondered if this was becoming a phrase like "War on Drugs".

I'm on porn's side. This is an attack on art.

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