r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Feb 04 '25

Social Media TikTok’s algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2024 presidential race, study finds | Trump videos were more likely to reach Democrats on TikTok than Harris videos were to reach Republicans

https://www.psypost.org/tiktoks-algorithm-exhibited-pro-republican-bias-during-2024-presidential-race-study-finds/
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u/Shadowolf75 Feb 04 '25

And now they want to make a fund to buy it... Just stop 2 seconds and think, why a government wants to buy a social media platform?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

That's what always pissed me off about our government complaining about China having our data from the app: They were mad because they wanted the data for themselves.

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u/clear349 Feb 04 '25

And now Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire with questionable morals and ethics in the most mild terms, basically stole every possible bit of data he could on us and controls the levers to fuck with us on unprecedented levels. I understand concerns about Chinese manipulation in the abstract but I cannot take seriously any hand wringing about it when the government does fucking nothing about the domestic threats we face. China can't see I registered Democrat (and presumably voted Kamala) and go "Oops, guess you don't get your tax return. Oh, and those student loans that were forgiven? Yeah, about that, we're gonna need that money. With interest of course"