TikTok is why Trump won his 2nd term. TikTok did not moderate away his content or moderate away pro Trump content like the other socials and Reddit. TikTok's viewership is massive and pro trump content was getting millions of views and likes and positive comments. Reddit will moderate that content away. TikTok has diminished Reddit's influence on politics.
Not sure that we can use Reddit as a good example, Reddit's "Popular" page was full of anti-Trump mockery while praising Biden no matter what initially and then they switched to praising Kamala, this example is not healthy if you was looking for unbiased information about candidates.
That's my point. Reddit is completely skewed against Trump, conservatives, the right, whereas TikTok allows this content and it thrives. TikTok was one of the few extremely mainstream platforms where pro trump content was allowed and flourished. I think for this reason Trump will fight the ban
TikTok, while allowing whatever content people post, can easily be trained to show you what you want to see. People that were fed whatever insane gibberish pro-Trump content are mostly the ones that wanted to see that content.
When election campaigns "got going" I started first see pro-Left content for about 2 days off and on. Disliked the F out of it... as I was doing that the algorithm was proly thinking "ohhh the right-winger, here's some awesome pro-right content..." took 2 days (off and on) to dislike that shit... From like August onward I maybe saw 2-3 political videos weekly if that...
Social media companies do not give a shit what you watch/read as long as you read/watch as long as possible. So you will get whatever (on TikTok or otherwise) you actually want to see there :)
This is the lazy explanation peddled by the elites who can't be bothered to look outside their own little bubble.
The far right is rising => everybody is racist.
The cost of living is rising too quickly and people are complaining => you are too stupid to see that the economy is doing extremely well and if that doesnt make sense to you then you must be Chinese or Russian puppet.
All of my TikTok feed was how poorly his turnout was, how silly his rallies were, and how dangerous it would be to elect him. Had I not also had my head outside my phone, I would have been flabbergasted by his win.
So is that promoting Trump? Or is it double reversi and trying to make people more confident to not need to vote, while also telling them to go vote? It gets confusing.
But for people who were undecided/somewhat pro-Trump, it was MAGA nation nonstop. Similar to the alt-right pipeline Google supports via Youtube. It is scary.
