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/Petfles Feb 04 '25

The right wing bias is way higher on platforms like Facebook and Twitter, you just have to look at those platforms for 5 minutes and you know

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u/DrAstralis Feb 04 '25

Just go on youtube and watch game reviews. You're only going to be 2-3 in before the "these games are woke and here's why seeing a woman is bad" channels start popping up.

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u/TALKING_TINA Feb 04 '25

Oh man I LOVE the dead space games and watched a bunch of dead space videos. Then a video popped up with dead space in the thumbnail so I clicked it, the first line of the video was "you can probably tell from the thumbnail this will be a political video".

It was all about wokeness ruining games. Dead space was ruined because in the remake there were people of different races in the posters hanging around the ship.

Like that's what some people care the most about in their game about mutilating space zombies it's actually crazy