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by bdangubic 559 days ago
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 :)