TikTok's algorithm is sending users down a far-right extremist rabbit hole

TikTok's recommendations algorithm is sending users down a far right wing rabbit hole

QAnon. Patriot Party, Oath Keepers. Three Percenters. Videos promoting these far right wing movements are all banned on TikTok. Yet the viral app's recommendations algorithm keeps pushing accounts that promote these groups and movements anyway. 

According to a new report by the media monitoring group Media Matters for America, TikTok's user recommendation algorithm is pushing its users toward accounts with the kinds of far-right views that are supposedly prohibited on the platform.

The report found that TikTok is still promoting content from QAnon, Patriot Party, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters accounts on the platform's "For You" page. The For You page is where TikTok's algorithm sends content it believes each specific user would like.  Read more...