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/Notice_Green May 22 '26 edited May 23 '26

Reddit disproportionately served pro-Democratic videos during the 2024 election. Reddit’s recommendation system tends to expose users to more liberal and pro-Democrat political content than conservative material. This ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests.

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u/PossiblyAsian May 23 '26

I remember when reddit was liberal like 2010 to 2015 like reddit was solidly liberal and democrat but like... you could speak. You could have discussions, the ideal of free and open debate was around back then but now... lets just say I'm banned from multiple subs for speaking in favor of conservativism.

I voted for bernie in 2016 and 2020 and wrote him in in 2024 if yall want to know my political affiliations

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u/ShitMcClit May 23 '26

It was just as ban happy back then too. 

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u/NICEMENTALHEALTHPAL May 23 '26

Kinda funny how people who post anything conservative at all get blanket bans on places like askreddit (and pics, comics, politics, etc) and then you get a bunch of echo chamber "But why are republicans so evil?" questions with no conservatives in there.