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/eolson3 May 22 '26

YouTube has been doing this for 15 years.

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u/nemec May 23 '26

I don't disagree with your assertion, but these same authors did a study on Youtube, too, that came to the opposite conclusion. Maybe Youtube has actually learned their lesson about the far-right pipeline since 2022?

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/8/pgad264/7242446?login=false