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TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
submitted 3 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also knowing how scummy these social media companies are and how they operate inside, there could be some internal memo to the moderators to let the AfD reign free (happened with Twitter and Libs of Tiktok).

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't just lump all "social media" companies together.

In this example an important difference is that Twitter is a porn site run by fascists.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

That LoTT stuff was happening under the previous ownership of Twitter too, and most higher ups do instruct their moderation team to not curb far-right extremism at the same rate.