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I assure you, this is not an irrational fear.
A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
I assure you, this is not an irrational fear. A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don’t understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It’s as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.