🐱 TikTok Radicalizes Users With Algorithm. In Just 2 Hours A Basic Transphobe Can Be Served Nazi, Right-Wing Extremist Videos: SCARY STUDY

TikTok Radicalizes Users With Algorithm. In Just 2 Hours A Basic Transphobe Can Be Served Nazi, Right-Wing Extremist Videos: SCARY STUDY - Towleroad Gay News

TikTok radicalizes For You” page (FYP) recommendation algorithm appears to be leading users down far-right rabbit holes

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TikTok radicalizes with it’s FYP (For You Page) … leading users down far-right rabbit holes. Transphobia seen as gateway to radicalization.​

“TikTok’s “For You” page (FYP) recommendation algorithm appears to be leading users down far-right rabbit holes. By analyzing and coding over 400 recommended videos after interacting solely with transphobic content, Media Matters traced how TikTok’s recommendation algorithm quickly began populating our research account’s FYP with hateful and far-right content,” The Little Richards Team throw it down in a post explaining all on Media Matters.

It’s not Hal or science fiction. It’s one of the most insidious things i’ve ever heard of. This type of AI is everywhere already and with not great results in a number of cases, but the tech companies don’t want to hear it.

Watch embedded video below for excellent, plain language, entertaining overview of the study.

Watch @abbieasr present the top line of the study linked immediately below. It’s entertaining while being a scary proof of the very dark side of social media and its impact on all of us.

Full research piece from me and @OliviaLittle is here: https://t.co/ALdOSmJ7MD
— Abbie Richards (@abbieasr) October 6, 2021

Our research suggests that transphobia can be a gateway prejudice, leading to further far-right radicalization.
OLIVIA LITTLE & ABBIE RICHARDS, Authors of

Key Findings — Quote From Summary​

• After we interacted with anti-trans content, TikTok’s recommendation algorithm populated our FYP feed with more transphobic and homophobic videos, as well as other far-right, hateful, and violent content.
• Exclusive interaction with anti-trans content spurred TikTok to recommend misogynistic content, racist and white supremacist content, anti-vaccine videos, antisemitic content, ableist narratives, conspiracy theories, hate symbols, and videos including general calls to violence.
• Of the 360 total recommended videos included in our analysis, 103 contained anti-trans and/or homophobic narratives, 42 were misogynistic, 29 contained racist narratives or white supremacist messaging, and 14 endorsed violence.

— Carly Evans (@CarlysHandle) October 5, 2021

Read the Article on Media Matters​

 

[The Lawgiver]

Youtube alt right pipeline is now the tiktok transphobia pipeline. trannies and tiktok co-opt and distort yet another political fear mongering narrative lmao.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Uh-huh... now do a study about how quickly it will serve liberals up commie content like that Hasan Piker dipshit.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Do you think they will ever realise it's the lgtvs themselves that radicalise people against lgtvs, or will they keep blaming everything else? no need to answer this i guess

 

[Knight of the Rope]

I actually think this is appalling. Where's the niche for people like myself, who hate the despicable trannies but perhaps aren't so redpilled on the (((true menace))) just yet? It's a total seller's market out there.

 

[Bec]

Youtube alt right pipeline is now the tiktok transphobia pipeline. trannies and tiktok co-opt and distort yet another political fear mongering narrative lmao.

Its the transphobe to notsee apperently.

 

[CatParty]

The best part of this article is “SCARY STUDY”

 

[The Lawgiver]

Its the transphobe to notsee apperently.

It's all the same to these guys, it seems.

 

[Billy Beer]

Surely the biggest problem is that streaming services made for people and by people, are infested with politics?

I wanna see people do stupid shit, play an instrument well or give good life tips. Not get lectured about trannies, trump, election stealing and China.

Fuck off and let me enjoy shit you cunts.

 

[MCLOS Horthy]

Okay, so the clock is counting down to a massive database leak of all tiktok information, and another 6 hour shutdown like has been happening?

 

[Queen Elizabeth II]

Oh no. Imagine a platform under the direct command of Winnie the Pooh containing content hostile to the degenerate hedonistic white devil sensibilities?

Who could have ever guessed?

 

[Maurice Caine]

 

[Exsosym]

Then they are recruited as terrorists and start killing blacks and lgbtq. TikTok tech exists solely to benefit nazis and terrorists.

 

[Sped Xing]

Nobody old enough to ride a bike should call anything "scary."

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

The best part of this article is “SCARY STUDY”

Well, it is October.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Oh look it is Abbie Richards tilting at another windmill for clout.

 

[Sperghetti]

Yet somehow, it’s never the problem that these services all utilize The Algorithm™ in the first place to constantly shove unwanted content into users’ faces instead of just letting the users decide for themselves what they want to see and when.

 

[SiccDicc]

The best part of this article is “SCARY STUDY”

I'm surprised they didn't try to pin this on the CCP getting sick of LGBT bullshit on their platform.

No wait. I'm not.

 

[The Last Stand]

Okay, one. They search for content, they get content. I'm sure the average person doesn't deal with that nonsense.

Two, it's TikTok. Of course it's going to be filled with bullshit. Three, the CCP are entirely homophobic. I'm sure they're laughing their asses off.

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

People should just remind them that the CCP is the enemy of globohomo… but they won’t or can’t come to terms that the largest commie nation disagrees with them.