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NYU Study Finds TikTok Skews Toward Anti-Democratic Content

5/23/2026

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NYU Abu Dhabi researchers published a Nature study that TikTok favors anti-Democrat content.
They built 323 bots from April 30 to November 11 2024, gathered over 280,000 videos, and found Republican bots got 11.5% more pro-Republican videos while Democratic bots received 7.5% more cross-party content, with bias toward anti-Democratic and abortion videos.
A survey of 1,008 U.S. TikTok users leaning Republican showed they more often saw political posts matching their views.

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NYU Abu Dhabi researchers published a Nature study that TikTok favors anti-Democrat content.
They built 323 bots from April 30 to November 11 2024, gathered over 280,000 videos, and found Republican bots got 11.5% more pro-Republican videos while Democratic bots received 7.5% more cross-party content, with bias toward anti-Democratic and abortion videos.
A survey of 1,008 U.S. TikTok users leaning Republican showed they more often saw political posts matching their views.