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TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race, study finds (www.psypost.org)
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A study found that TikTok’s recommendation algorithm favored Republican-leaning content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race.

TikTok, with over a billion active users worldwide, has become a key source of news, particularly for younger audiences.

Using 323 simulated accounts, researchers discovered that Republican-leaning users received 11.8% more aligned content than Democratic-leaning users, who were exposed to more opposing viewpoints.

The bias was largely driven by negative partisanship, with more anti-Democratic content recommended.

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[–] -4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The problem is literally no one cares about Palestine. They should, but they don't.

You chose the worst fucking hill to die on. Some brown people getting exploded in a place most people can't find in a map on the other side of the world is nothing to an average working person compared to their rent, utility or grocery bills going up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The problem is literally no one cares about Palestine.

    Quite a few people care about Palestine. That's a "problem" in so far as there are no pro-Palestinian political currents in the American political scene. So you've got these people eager to support candidates, but no candidates for them to support.

    You chose the worst fucking hill to die on.

    At some point, "I'm going to vote for the second biggest pro-genocide party on the ticket" isn't the message that gets people to the polls. Dems lost 15M votes over four years, as they shed their reputation of competency and compassion for one of compromise and corruption. Trying to force TikTok to sell its operations to an American Tech Company, on the grounds that it was too friendly to Palestinians, was just one more straw on the camel's back.

    compared to their rent, utility or grocery bills going up.

    Dems couldn't bring themselves to do anything about that either. All they could do was inflate the rate of profit enjoyed by the NASDAQ. And once they'd accomplished that task, they were of no more use to the Silicon Valley bag men.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    So you've got these people eager to support candidates, but no candidates for them to support.

    This is delusional. Majority of voters don't think about this nonsense at all.

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5198616/2024-presidential-election-results-republican-shift

    For example, in Maricopa County, Ariz., home to Phoenix, Harris got roughly 61,000 fewer votes than Biden in 2020. Trump, on the other hand, gained about 56,000, for a 117,000-vote shift in just one county.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/us/democrats-ipsos-poll-abortion-lgbt.html

    In a broad sense, the poll, which surveyed a representative sample of 2,128 adults nationwide, found that Americans think the Republican Party is more in sync with the mood of the country. The issues that people said mattered most to Republicans were also, for the most part, the issues that mattered to them: immigration, the economy, inflation and taxes.

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