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Stephen Downes

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This post on TikTok looks at the TikTok recommendation algorithm and reports some concerning results. It does essentially the same thing YouTube's algorithm does (or did; I'm not sure of YouTube's status at the moment). If you follow one thing that might suggest you can be radicalized (in this case, trans-phobic videos) it will begin to suggest more and more radical things. I think it's good that Abbie Richards is reporting this on TikTok, though the algorithm is probably preventing it from reaching the people who could really benefit from it.

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