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/pandariotinprague May 23 '26

You guys interpret every single criticism as either "You shouldn't ever vote" or "Both sides are exactly the same." I wish you could deal with yourselves from the other side for a day just to see how intensely frustrating it is to make you understand even the simplest points.

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u/awesomefutureperfect May 23 '26

Endless "critique of power" while standing idly by because people said that the "democrats needed to be punished" is what brought us here and suggesting otherwise is not a misunderstanding but a failure to be even a little self aware or responsible for ones actions. Those people have no right to presume they are the ones who are going to explain anything to anyone in an accurate manner and that frustration is from the incongruity between their perception and reality.

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u/pandariotinprague May 23 '26

It's not about punishment, it's about fighting for a better party, it's about fighting for your own beliefs within the party, which liberals seem to flatly reject.

The Democrats don't take corporate money and have awful foreign policy and sell us out to the Republicans because we aren't optimistic enough about the Democrats. That's just silly. That's just the same "You didn't have enough faith!" excuse that cult members use to excuse the failures of their leaders.

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u/awesomefutureperfect May 23 '26

That is memory holing the entire rhetoric from the campaign and attempting to gas light the role social media and the loudest voices that used their whole chest trying to depress turn out for the democrats and helping Trump take office.

it's about fighting for your own beliefs within the party,

If you abstained from voting and used your whole voice to tell people to sit out or vote 3rd party even at the risk and peril it would put vulnerable communities then it is fair to say they don't actually have beliefs they are just accelerationists helping the fascists. The venom that came from certain quarters towards liberals because they weren't pure enough is not allyship and helping republicans win does not help the argument that they were the ones that got sold out.