Study of TikTok, X 'For You' feeds in Germany finds far-right political bias ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
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At a guess it's a Musk fan looking to troll. Sad times that people spend their time like this when having a civil discussion is just as easy and you might actually get a bit more out of it
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Pepperidge Farms remembers when Conservatives complained about tech have a left leaning bias.
Was that a confession like all accusations?
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No dude, you’re being a prick.
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Coincidentally, I just read a mastodon post where someone did a basic experiment to see what kind of content TikTok is pushing.
I was curious what a TikTok user might see if they made a fresh account. I provided no preferred content categories, and did not interact with any video in any way except the skip them.
In my first fifteen minutes, I received:
9 manosphere “inspiration” videos
The official accounts of Tucker Carlson and Vivek
2 clips from each Fox News, and tabloids New York Post and Metro
1 “America first” rando
1 Copaganda vid of “cool” new police robots
Elon’s nazi salute without context or commentary(they go on to list other things they saw after this.)
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What do they need bots for? Just cut out the middleman and buy and sell upvotes/ recommendations/ rankings on the frontpage. Who would notice?
Lemmings and even more so Redditors are still clinging to the sham of "objective" platforms playing by some sort of physical rules and clean, unbiased algorithms in the face of multiple daily threads on social media that are very obviously being brigaded and capsized, for much more than 10 years at this point. -
Fascinating game. You get to learn what amazing liars people can be. The devil really is a squirrel.
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"Turmoil" is an interesting choice of words.
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At this point, there is no more "The West."
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Even if your content does not lean right wing (true crime/cults/court trials/lawyers, dog videos, craft videos, art videos, protest support music) on YouTube. Occasionally I’ll get a bunch of right wing bullshit all over…. And I’m like??? Then I have to block all of them and eventually they disappear only to resurface again sometime later.
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Well China didn't heed that advice because they 1000% promote Trump and right wing fascists.
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I'm getting stuff on Facebook, too. I've stopped engaging with political content on Facebook years ago, and every time I see something, I either block the account or click "Stop showing me posts from X".
It doesn't even look like ads. It's just stuff that Facebook seems to happen to be recommending to me.
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Nah. I just have different opinion and more knowledge which for some reason that makes you angry.
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So, and I’m not at all arguing for them here let me be clear, but things like Reddit being dragged in the media for that jailbait subreddit and the Covid stuff causing lawmakers to basically say “hey if you keep allowing disinformation we are going to have to regulate it” is what they mean by leftist bias.
I was reading yarvins bs the other day and that basically sums up the thinking.
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Pretend what? Pretend that you (and also everone else) don't have an insight into how their algorithms work, besides their words? We need to pretend that?
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It's time to get rid of US social media in europe. I don't care if I won't be able to engage on social media, we'll have european social media at some point getting users. But we can't let the US have such a large impact into our own society, how we vote, etc.
Fuck Elon. Hope he'll burn in hell.
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gaza/israel related ones are from israeli bots, while everything else almost always come from russia. other users and me pointed out in the past reddit does very little to stem the amount of bots coming from RU.
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i avoid the sub if i get prior banned, either temporarily or a perma one if already have another account. whats different is they decided to after all the accs this time, i know they can connect through your IP or device, but they dint do it before.
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Europe could... come to the Fediverse!
And help host/contribute to it.
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No, you can pretend I don't know, and everyone else already do as you can see
