TikTok algorithm showed a pro-Republican bias during the last US presidential election
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TikTok recommended more content aligned with the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2024, according to a research published this Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. The study analyzed more than 280,000 videos recommended by the platform for 27 weeks and detected systematic differences in the political exposure of simulated users. The research argues that accounts trained to consume Republican content received 11.5%…
TikTok algorithm showed a pro-Republican bias during the last US presidential election
TikTok's algorithm did not treat Democrats and Republicans equally during the 2024 US presidential election. According to a paper published in Nature, its recommendation system showed a Republican-leaning skew in three states. The journal's editors have also published a Research Briefing in the same issue covering the study.
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