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X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties (peoplevsbig.tech)
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The investigation looked at what content from political parties and politicians is shown to newly created accounts that are interested in parties and politicians from either the left or the right.

It found that the algorithms push content from the far right to the right-leaning and left-leaning accounts and, to a lesser extent, push content from the radical left to left-leaning accounts.

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[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 28 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's more about rage bait. The far right just happens to have the best rage bait for the moderate majority.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

And any resistance to those policies is met with more rage from the right, its a self propelling cycle.

[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Exactly

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Why isn't class-based rage as popular, then?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

because everyone thinks they are middle-class, and everyone aspires to be rich.

very few people think improving the conditions of the working class is a worthwhile goal... the goal is to get out of the working class and feel superior to them.

i grew up a white working class town. Everyone in my town played the lottery and complained about immigrants. They did very little to actually try and improve their town lives... they thought doing so was 'gay'. They wanted to send their kids to college, but then complained how college 'corrupted' us all and turned us into homos, especially when we moved away and got good jobs and had better lives.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah yes. The "temporarilly embarrased billionaire". How could I forget?

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

What's baffling is I meet people my own age, who make like 200K a year who also think this exact same way. They think their life right now is impoverished and they deserve to be a billionaire one day. Half my first dates the past couple of years tell me how 'difficult' their life is because they can't afford first class plane tickets.

It's mind-blowing to me.

[–] Salvia@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Because the right censors that and feeds anti-socialist propaganda to the media so people misunderstand it and don't try to fight it.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

Good ol' Red Scare propaganda.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Because it's based on reality and doesn't pander quite as much.