TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine
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In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    Have you seen Chinese TikTok vs America TikTok? It’s wild. The Chinese TikTok has videos of scientists and musicians and engineers all tackling major problems. It’s inspirational. The American TikTok is absolutely fucked. There’s clearly heavy algorithm manipulation. At the very least, we know China could make American TikTok not terrible and they choose not to.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      The Chinese TikTok has videos of scientists and musicians and engineers all tackling major problems. It’s inspirational

      My TikTok FYP is various scientists/science commenters, stand up comedians, chubby goth girls dancing, Magic The Gathering card reviews, and swinger shit.

      If you engage only with things you like, you’ll only see things you like.

      • steltek@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Stupid lizard brains are too easily tricked with tribalism and anger though. It takes a real conscious effort to curate your feed like that.

        Any nuanced opinion on Gaza gets trashed because both “teams” view you as the enemy. You’re always pushed towards absolutism.

        • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I agree with the latter, but I don’t think it takes a lot of effort to curate a TikTok FYP.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      A lot of the best sci-fi is coming out of China these days. People who like to theorize about these things point to a population, much like America in the post war Baby Boom, seeing for themselves the benefits science can bring to their lives as China pretty rapidly develops, and being fascinated by what could be next.

      So you might need to accept that the most popular trending American social media is venal and insipid because the average American wants to see venal and insipid, while the Chinese population might just be interested in things that interest them.