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Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial far-right political bias in Germany ahead of a federal election that takes place Sunday, according to new research carried out by Global Witness.

The non-government organization (NGO) undertook an analysis of social media content displayed to new users via algorithmically sorted “For You” feeds — finding both platforms skewed heavily toward amplifying content that favors the far-right AfD party in algorithmically programmed feeds.

Global Witness’ tests identified the most extreme bias on TikTok, where 78% of the political content that was algorithmically recommended to its test accounts, and came from accounts the test users did not follow, was supportive of the AfD party. (It notes this figure far exceeds the level of support the party is achieving in current polling, where it attracts backing from around 20% of German voters.)

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[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 24 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

reddit is doing this too, at first it leaned left but recently they allowed more astroturfing from right wingers to swamp the subs, so now they are banning any remotely things that can be critical of right wing views. the reason it leans more right is, because they are allowing so much trump based news like with MSM.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

It's not particularly surprising when left wingers are first movers to other platforms. The remaining people are a demographic where the left has filtered out, and with content being a product of the user base it gets a similar bias.

[–] churlish@lemmy.ca 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's why I'm here. Reddit stopped being interesting and became just political.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

And anything relating to gaza the comments are truly disgusting and disconnected from reality. Honestly all Reddit has become a battle ground of 80% hate and 10% people trying their best to fight back with another 10 not caring (in terms of commenters)

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You forgot bots. Good % of every comments are bots on LLM algos.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Good point, I do forget about the bots. Sometimes I hope it's mostly all bots, but not so sure.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

its also the place where people get banned very easily, so i had to avoid those subs to avoid getting banned myself.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

Yup, lost my decade + old account, but it is what it is, another app to get off of