Study says that TikTok algorithm prioritized Republican content

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May 6 (UPI) -- TikTok's algorithm showed pro-Republican content as a priority in three states leading up to the 2024 presidential election, a study released Wednesday in the journal Nature found. The researchers behind the study created more than 300 dummy accounts based in New York, Texas and Georgia on the social media platform and had those accounts "watch" videos associated with U.S. Democrat- or Republican-leaning materials. Then they kept track of the videos the platform recommended via

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