• @leanleft@lemmy.ml
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    23 months ago

    whether or not tiktok spreads misinformation…* i do not know.*
    but its the only platform i know that feeds your political tendancies if you continually seek it out.
    i am very certain that other platforms tend to funnel you toward trad lib (if anything at all!)
    so, what some people claim about mainstream censorship… is true. (in my experience)

    • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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      83 months ago

      Most platforms lead people to more of what they already believe. If you watch one video from the wrong YouTuber, your entire feed will be nothing but neoconservatives.

      • @anlumo@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        Yeah, I really hated the new Star Wars trilogy, and so watched a few reviews of them. This caused YouTube to recommend me more and more nuttier right-wing videos, because many negative reviews of those movies were done by right wingers (like Geeks & Gamers and Nerdrotic) that followed these up by more and more “woke”-critical videos over time.

        It took years to retrain the algorithm that I’m not a right-wing nutjob.