TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election(www.psypost.org)

61 pointsby CharlesW4 hours ago7 comments

rayiner20 minutes ago
The pro-Democrat videos in TikTok are awful. It’s no fun to watch a video of people crying about having “empathy.” Too bad the Gen X Democrats aren’t on Tik Tok. They were funny!
chomp2 hours ago
I mean, it’s ran by Larry Ellison and the Saudis, so I don’t think this is surprising. But good research nonetheless.
- CaptainNegative2 hours ago
  Does he also run a time machine? He bought TikTok only earlier this year.
  - someotherperson2 hours ago
    Worth mentioning that Oracle has been hosting US TikTok data since 2022.
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- throwawayffffasan hour ago
  Wasn't it run by the Chinese back then?
outside12342 hours ago
I mean I think we can expect that from the then Chinese and now Billionaires that own it
aaron69534 minutes ago
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- clipsy3 hours ago
  The party is named the "Democratic Party," not the "Democrat Party."
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_State...
  - throwawayffffasan hour ago
    Sure but Anti-Democratic can mean against the party or against democracy. Anti-Democrat while technically incorrect is clearer.
  - tristanj2 hours ago
    The epithet 'Democrat Party' has been used for over a hundred years to refer to the Democratic Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
    The slur stems from how the Democratic Party campaigns on democratic principles and helping the people, but when in elected they end up not delivering and instead protecting donors & corporate interests. They also do not act democratic. The Democratic Party rigged the 2016 primary so Bernie Sanders would lose to Hillary Clinton. Then in 2020 they rigged the primary again so Joe Biden would win against Bernie Sanders. Then in 2024, they rigged it again so Kamala Harris became Democratic nominee without winning the primary. All of this was done to protect donor & corporate interests.
    The Republican party is the same, there's nothing republican about them.
blindriver2 hours ago
Given the fact that the Republicans won, doesn't that actually make sense? More people consumed the pro-Republican content because they intended to vote Republican.
- giarc2 hours ago
  It's probably a bit more nuanced then that. You have to look at the people that use Tiktok... are they generally more left or right? I don't know the answer. I would have said they are younger and therefore more left leaning, however, I think that's becoming less and less true.
- hallole2 hours ago
  Good point, but the article does say
  > "ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests"
  But yeah, even in the absence of any kind of algorithmic bias, I'd still expect there to be an imbalance for the reason that you point out.
- krapp2 hours ago
  If it were the other way around people would be accusing the CCP of trying to rig the election for the Democrats, but sure. When it helps the Republicans I guess there's nothing to see here.
  - bediger400018 minutes ago
    That's the media trying to remediate the "liberal bias" r that almost everyone believes, despite stories like this.