[pavlov]

It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown.

(Twitter apparently now has a patchwork of hacks like the famous “author_is_elon” multiplier that slipped into their public source code release, but that’s nothing like TikTok’s meticulous selection process for algorithmic boosting.)

It would be good to have more visibility into this process because it wields massive influence among the 13-28 demographic, roughly.

[arkh]

> massive influence among the 13-28 demographic

So not really the people who vote.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Most people in the stated age range can vote.

[arkh]

Yes but unfortunately they're often the people who vote the less. https://national-policies.eacea.ec.europa.eu/youthwiki/chapt...

> Turnout among young people in Romania is generally lower than the turnout of elder people.