[toyg]

Nobody cares because (it is perceived that) there is no political discourse on TikTok yet.

It was the same for Twitter and Facebook. Then Trump happened and People With Important Jobs started paying attention to them. There has not been such a catalyst event for TikTok yet. Like with Zoom, there is a vague feeling among the security-paranoid that the Chinese are leveraging it for data-gathering, but as long as they get bazillion videos of teenagers pulling faces, who cares?

[Karunamon]

It exists, but unlike, say, Twitter, it's extremely easy to remove from your attention.

TikTok's recommendation algorithm is really second to none.

[slategruen]

In my country (Philippines), TikTok has been one of the main sources of political misinformation besides Facebook and YouTube (for a lesser degree). It's gotten so bad that it's impacting the coming national election wherein the platform of the currently leading candidate is focused on the glorification of the past dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

[sjg007]

There was plenty of political discourse on TikTok in the last election cycle. Every tiktok meme had a pro Trump anti Biden version.

[sergiotapia]

It 100% depends on what you like. I've been using tiktok forever and a day and all I see is funny stuff that is relevant to me. Very obscure niche things that have 1000 hearts - it's scary good at recommending relevant content.

If you are seeing political content, it's just because you told the algorithm that you enjoy interacting with that type of content.

[toyg]

That's why I said "perceived". Eventually something will happen and Important People will pay attention. It just has not happened yet.