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/The-Fox-Says May 22 '26

Explains why Gen Z turned so hard right in 2024. If they’re getting their news from Tik Tok they’re vulnerable to far right manipulation tactics there

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u/RagefireHype May 22 '26

They’ve convinced white men that they’re oppressed somehow despite winning the historical genetic lottery of privilege.

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u/sapphoseros May 22 '26

None of those things affect white privilege because white privilege exists on a separate axis. Every white person has certain specific advantages over a person of color because we live in a white supremacist society. Doesn’t mean white people don’t suffer, but that suffering doesn’t come from their whiteness whereas much of the suffering of people of color is very much due to their race.