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Duh.
The owners of something as valuable (monetarily, at least) as TikTok sure as shit aren't going to support anything even remotely resembling left-wing politics.
Even if they didn't do it on purpose I suspect the algorithm just calculated that right-wing was gonna get more attention by nature. I recently saw a video by an analyst (I don't remember who, so grain of salt, but) and basically right wing generally tends to get reactions by the right and rage or debunking reactions from the center/right-left, while left wing generally tends to mostly get engagement from the left/far-left. Which means a net higher engagement from right-wing content, and since the algorithm bumps higher engagement content, it's more likely to create a feedback loop without the company having to stack the deck at all.
Not just TikTok.
You can squeeze nearly every big brand in there. Left wing philosophy is completely antithetical to big businesses.
TikTok is a great example because it's relatively new and very popular. But the same is true for nearly every corporate/for-profit social media company you can think. And legacy media, for that matter, too.
They have the ability to exert control over the content that billions of people look at every day. You would have to be incredibly naive to think that's a power that they wouldn't use in their interests.
You get extremely cynical, you could even start to question how people are portrayed in art...movies, books, music, etc. Archetypes are often intertwined with stereotypes. For a long time, the bad guy was always Russian. Then they were Arabic. The western patriarchy always prevails.
And it seems strange to me how all the biggest mainstream rappers continually perpetuate negative black stereotypes.
I could go on...
No shit
^this is TikTok cocksucking for Trump BEFORE the ban was implemented for him saving them from it, which he hadn't done yet.
They had even turned off services voluntarily right before the election so people would blame Biden for it.
The media manipulation leading up to the election was so obvious. I feel like, as usual, everyone has just forgotten about it.
Surprising no one. This will only get worse, by the way, now that the Ellison family controls the app.
Meta, Google/alphabet, X, TikTok, they are ALL controlled by fascists. Reddit too. Look how fast they all got in line for dime store Mussolini's inauguration. The point of "the algorithm" is to build a little tube of information for each individual user, to feed us exactly what they think will keep us focused on the petty bullshit while the actual story plays out over everyone's head. They push right wing shit because fascism is GREAT for whoever is in power, and right now it's them. As a millennial, we are going to have to fight for this democracy for the rest of our lives.
no shit
Don't get your political news from tiktok?