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Re:The Secret Sauce of Tik-Tok’s Recommendations by red-iron-pine on Friday February 17, 2023 @03:42PM (#34840260)
clickbate.

that which inflames or causes controversy gets sent around or reposted.

clicks == money.

as does "sponsored content" aka "post this to everyone who meets demographic groups X and Y". just so happens that some of those people want folks angry about some topic.

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