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X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties (peoplevsbig.tech)
submitted 2 hours ago by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.

It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.

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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 16 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I do wonder how much of this is just that moderate parties are boring.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 1 points 14 minutes ago

Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate ad revenue... I mean "engagement" than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.

[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

I think it's more about rage bait. The far right just happens to have the best rage bait for the moderate majority.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 41 minutes ago (2 children)

Why isn't class-based rage as popular, then?

[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 2 points 6 minutes ago

Because the right censors that and feeds anti-socialist propaganda to the media so people misunderstand it and don't try to fight it.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

Because it's based on reality and doesn't pander quite as much.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.

[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Exactly

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

Also the fact that people with moderate views don't tend to watch political content all that much.