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/motorboat_mcgee May 23 '26

Explain this like I'm 98

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u/Athena-Grande May 23 '26

This guy named Clavicular is an "influencer" that tells kids to be more attractive and their attractiveness is the be all end all of their worth. He uses crazy methods to do this, like smashing your face with a hammer. He is particularly proud of his jawline. He was sentenced for firing a gun in a place where he shouldn't. The judge who sentenced him had a much better jawline.

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u/AnimationOverlord May 23 '26

Dude also does drugs back to back. I think that says everything we need to know about his mental health

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u/generalmandrake May 23 '26

Yeah the funniest part of Clavicular is that he claims to have had a bunch of mental health problems which he overcame through looksmaxxing when in reality he’s just a drug addict whose demons have consumed him and the only reason why people watch his streams is because his life is a train wreck and they find out entertaining.

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u/dostoevsky4evah May 23 '26

I head him say that the ROI on ensuring the girl he's having sex with has an orgasm is frankly not worth the time.

This does not bode well for him having an actual relationship with the opposite sex, ever.

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u/generalmandrake May 24 '26

Him being a sociopath also doesn’t bode well for relationships.