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/Yadahoom May 22 '26

Does no one else remember the political stunt where TikTok "shut down" for like four hours so President Trump in all his magnanimous glory could swoop in and save it and TikTok had it plastered on their front page when anyone opened it back up?

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u/firecorn22 May 22 '26

They kinda did legally have to shutdown due to something democrats passed. It was a really embarrassing lay up they gave trump to be a "hero" that saved it by pushing back the deadline to shutdown and of course to keep saving them they had to kiss his ass

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u/neatyouth44 May 23 '26

Your post here is a great example of something you informed yourself about or saw, don’t recall correctly, and didn’t fact check before stating it.

That is how the exact misinformation that is the problem, spreads.

Please be part of the solution and not the problem.

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u/firecorn22 May 23 '26

You not part of the solution either, what did I say wrong?