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TikTok algorithm recommends twice as much hard right content to users ahead of Polish election
Before Poland’s presidential election runoff, new investigation suggests TikTok feed pushes more hard right content to new, politically balanced users
Nevertheless, the algorithm’s design to amplify engaging content can lead to the disproportionate boosting of some political views over others, or open it to external manipulation, both of which pose risks to civic discourse and democracy. As we’ve observed in multiple elections over the past six months, TikTok’s recommender system consistently pushed more right-wing content to new users equally interested in all candidates or parties. With another investigation finding similar patterns, we call on the European Commission to continue examining possible political bias in TikTok’s content recommendation algorithms and related risks.
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