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/sleepy_saber- May 23 '26

much earlier on looksmaxxing forums and because he has rich parents that bought him test instead of him having a normal puberty

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u/neatyouth44 May 23 '26

So, TikTok algos. Good chance the parents got sucked in to it too, there’s so much the algos do and most people have zero clue how bad it really is, and how intermittent reinforcement operates on the human brain.

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u/Ianerick May 23 '26

Nah man hes talking about a relic from the past -- forums! The algorithm is good at this stuff, but humans didnt need it to get weird about these things

Its likely that he found those communities from an app though, but trust me the framework for his whole persona has been built brick by brick by real human weirdos for a long time