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ted (not lasso)
@ted
this is meaningfully concerning. TikTok is a great platform for entertainment, and a terrible one for news. its capacity to cause harmful social contagions is unparalleled. vids have 3 secs to capture attention (10 words) with zero way to fact check content (unlike community notes), and the algo boosts controversy.
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I see more political content on Twitter than TikTok bit a long shot I watch TikTok more than most on this app and never saw the Bin Laden thing - only saw it on Twitter People are overreacting IMO
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@giu
Could it be that you interact less with political content and so the algo doesn't show you much? Insta reels started showing a lot more doggo content to me as I got a dog and the algo figured it out
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Yes and that's my point - it's not the platform's fault, it's the users. Those users are going to see the same content on TikTok or Twitter, but nobody's saying ban Twitter
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I see. I think the argument that some are using is that TikTok favors some sides of the debate and sometimes that is weaponized by the CCP. I don't know if it is true or not, but I saw a thread of someone trying to engage with pro-Israel content and the platform started showing content that was not pro-Israel
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@giu
And given that TikTok has such a cultural importance for teenagers, which are more easily persuaded, then it deserves more scrutiny versus other players. On the other side of the debate, X has open-sourced the algorithm, allowing us to understand why we are seeing certain posts.
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Do you think the CCP would be pushing more pro-Israel and anti-Israel content? fwiw I definitely see videos from both sides (one more heavily than the other - same as Twitter - which makes sense for the algo given my engagement)
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