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Wudi@feddit.uk to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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TikTok’s algorithm systematically skewed to the right during the 2024 US elections, study finds

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TikTok’s algorithm systematically skewed to the right during the 2024 US elections, study finds

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    What, the CCP, having already previously used TikTok as a propaganda tool to push narratives that support their interests, proactively supported the side that would help ruin their biggest foreign adversary? WHO coulda thunk it.

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      You’re still blaming china? For revealing the reality of genocide?

      TikTok is literally owned by a zionist. This is what the sinophobe libs wanted. Huge gift to AIPAC.

      TikTok & X ‘most important’ tools — Netanyahu to influencers

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        The article posted refers to 2024, TikTok didn’t agree to sell to Oracle until 2025 and the full handover didn’t take effect until this year. For the purposes of this post, it was indeed conceivably China behind this effort.

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        Hikvision, a Chinese state-owned company, supplies surveillance equipment on West Bank Palestinians. China continues to deny that it has been committing genocide in Uyghurstan for over a decade. China has destroyed my home and turned it into a facsimile where the words “national security” appear every 5 minutes in every part of society and made it so that the March of the Volunteers is mandated on every television channel twice a day.

        If China gave a fuck about Palestine or Iran or any sort of civilian life, it would have done something to support the oppressed and work towards a peace deal, instead of funding Russia to bomb civilians in Ukraine. If China had any sort of moral backbone, it would stop oppressing its own citizenry to the point where people have been arrested for holding up a blank piece of paper. If China had any foot to stand on, it wouldn’t be literally hosting Donald Trump and praising MAGA a week ago, before turning around to host Vladimir fucking Putin.

        And yes, I have fucking sources too.

        https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/05/israel-opt-israeli-authorities-are-using-facial-recognition-technology-to-entrench-apartheid/
        https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/persecution-of-uyghurs-in-xinjiang-torture-crimes-against-humanity-and-genocide
        https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3108905/hong-kong-radio-broadcasters-begin-playing-national-anthem
        https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/how-china-forgot-promises-and-debts-to-ukraine-and-backed-russias-war
        https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2023/11/chinas-white-paper-movement-one-year-on-six-protesters-share-their-stories/
        https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/14/world/video/president-xi-china-maga-intldsk

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        If you’re not blaming China, you’re falling for the “All world powers suck except my favorite one” trope.

        In actuality, they all suck.

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        Are we still using the “I had to support fascism to save palestine” lie?

        Like does Palestine look saved to you? Does the fact that you helped murder those Iranian children not weigh on your conscience. How long until some of you admit you got conned by obvious propaganda?

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        Are you serious? Tiktok was owned by a Chinese company. It was only recently forced to sell its US operations

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        Tiktok was sold to one rich asshole called larry over a year after the election. In the time frame that’s being discussed here, it was still under Chinese control.

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    Next up; The weather.

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      Okay, if they can alter the wx, I’ll be fucking impressed.

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    deleted by creator

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    Me watching every single piece of social media regurgitate right wing talking points for the last decade.
    No shit.

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    Just depends on the user. Back then when I was using TikTok, my feed was filled with liberals, leftists, and independents. No conservatives or Maga in sight. If people saw right wing content that unfortunately just means they were interacting with it

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      I think it also skewed right for people that are politically neutral or people who tend to avoid the news. That’s sort of the problem with most of these algorithms.

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    Libs were desperate to stop TikTok and then they immediately handed it over to zionists. What else do you expect from a genocidal cult?

    TikTok & X ‘most important’ tools — Netanyahu to influencers

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      Lmao sure it was “the libs” and definitely not the government that actually did things.

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      Tik Tok users claimed that there was an attack on Tik Tok, and that it was the last bastion of free speech and anti-censorship, and then claimed they were right when ByteDance kicked them off temporarily so they could “see” how American ownership would equate to censorship. And all this happened after the election was already “won”.

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