Researchers found that TikTok’s For You pages prioritized pro-Republican content in New York, Texas and Georgia
A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature finds that TikTok’s algorithm systematically prioritized pro-Republican content in three states leading up to the 2024 US elections.
Researchers created hundreds of dummy accounts and conditioned them to mimic real users’ behavior by watching a set of videos either aligned with the US Democratic or Republican parties. Then, they tracked the videos TikTok recommended on these accounts’ For You pages, TikTok’s main feed.
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This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Sanya Mansoor.
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