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Re:TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2... by LordDragonfang on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @01:37PM (#42936679)
The only reason I even knew who Jack Dorsey was was from podcasts talking about him. Elon's tweets show up in my feed regularly, and sometimes are even pushed to my phone, despite not engaging with them and even explicitly pressing the "show less" button. (I also get push notification from conservative accounts, despite being what most of them would call "far left")
Re:TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2... by nradov on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:51PM (#42940251)
Why would you ever allow push notifications from any social media? And on X you can still mute or block individual accounts that you don't want to see.
Re:TikTok's algorithm exhibited pro-Republican bias during 2... by distortionfield on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:39PM (#42940954)
That isn’t the point of this entire thread, though. It’s about what the default is, because like it or not, most people are crazy susceptible and have practically zero media literacy.