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[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

The paper referenced gives an overview of its methodology and its data.

The three 'hit songs' you cite appear to actually be:

  1. Foreign funding decreases democracy and increases antisemitism in universities

  2. Some DEI programs are instituted in a counterproductive way

and

  1. Glorification of Luigi Mangione could result in a feedback loop of violence like 4chan did with the alt-right (I agree, but I don't see it as necessarily a bad thing)

Use https://12ft.io/ to bypass the paywall if you're interested in past discourse on the matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lol, fair play, I editorialized the titles too. But really once you click into them it's super obvious these guys have an axe to grind. For example, (from the relevant paper) they state that serving up less Anti CCP content is a bias. But they compare it to YouTube and Instagram. Two services pretty famous for taking people down far right tracks if you let their algorithm auto play. So in this case even a neutral position is going to have less Anti-CCP propaganda.

And the entire paper is flawed in this way. The baseline they establish is itself flawed. They also claim causation but can only show correlation with their skewed baseline.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Yea, they were comparing tiktok to other american-owned social media sites, which are guilty of exactly the same thing themselves.

Any site that doesn't explicitly push anti chinese content is going to look like a pro-chinese bias