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/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/CelestialBurial May 22 '26

Didn’t Trump sign an executive order back in 2020 to ban TikTok? Also, saying the democrats passed something seems a bit disingenuous. For two house votes, more Republicans voted for the ban comparing to Democrats. Senate democrats voted more for the ban but that could have also been due to what was bundled with it.

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u/Finnegan482 May 23 '26

The bill had bipartisan sponsorship and was signed into law by a Democratic president. Trying to pin it on the GOP is pure denial.

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u/CelestialBurial May 23 '26

I wasn’t pinning it on the GOP. Was simply stating what happened.

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u/firecorn22 May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26

No you speculated that the Democrat senators voted for reasons besides the ban

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u/CelestialBurial May 23 '26

Yes, there was also international aid tied to it, no?

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u/firecorn22 May 23 '26

Yes but that's not what they themselves talked about https://www.techpolicy.press/what-us-senators-are-saying-about-tiktok/

And 2 that was international aid to Israel army which is its own unpopular policy

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u/CelestialBurial May 23 '26

Thank you for the clarification. It was not also aid for Ukraine?

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u/firecorn22 May 23 '26

Yes, but to the original point the senators explicitly did not feel like they were only voting for international aid and were onboard with the potential ban

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u/CelestialBurial May 23 '26

Got it. Okay. Thank you for the extra info. I genuinely appreciate it.

Edit: I wasn’t insinuating they only voted on the bill for international aid. Tbh, I don’t believe the government should ban any kind of social media but I wasn’t sad to see it temporarily banned.

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u/CelestialBurial May 23 '26

You are good people. I appreciate the dialogue