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>Instead you can go to TikTok where you will find mostly amusing and at times informative content.

TikTok has by far the best recommender system I have ever tried. After an hour of use the system had correctly narrowed down my interests of exoplanets, space exploration, technology, and startups.

However that also means TikTok is the most hypertuned echochamber. I hope people don't get their political views from TikTok.

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Your intuition is correct. According to [1] it can take 2 hours of browsing and interacting with transphobic content to get straight into neo-nazi content. Many people don't ever see such videos, and don't think it's on the platform - it does become a very hypertuned hyperfocused echo chamber.

[0] https://www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/tiktoks-algorithm-leads-...

The web page you linked seems like it was written by someone who lives in a basement and has never logged off of Twitter.

“ We defined “prominent far-right figures/prominent far right talking points” posts as those that contain prominent far-right figures such as Ben Shapiro, Alex Jones…”

“ We defined “racist/white supremacist” posts as those which… support white supremacy by using white supremacist talking points such as “white pride” or “white lives matter.””

So do white lives not matter? Seems like whoever wrote this hates themselves and is racist.

Bravo, best self-own I've seen in a while. And thanks for letting us know you're the kind of poster who unironically echoes white supremacist talking points.

Are there any papers on this matter that are not made by explicitly political think tanks?

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