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TikTok Shifts Young Users 10% Toward Trump, Democrats React

7/10/2026

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Researchers report TikTok’s algorithm shifted half of its under-30 users ten percentage points toward President Donald Trump between 2020 and 2024.
A peer-reviewed Nature study found TikTok gave Republican-seeded accounts 11.5% more party-aligned content than Democratic-seeded accounts.
Democratic lawmakers are urging Congress to require algorithmic transparency, overhaul Section 230, and pursue antitrust action against Meta, X, and Google.

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Researchers report TikTok’s algorithm shifted half of its under-30 users ten percentage points toward President Donald Trump between 2020 and 2024.
A peer-reviewed Nature study found TikTok gave Republican-seeded accounts 11.5% more party-aligned content than Democratic-seeded accounts.
Democratic lawmakers are urging Congress to require algorithmic transparency, overhaul Section 230, and pursue antitrust action against Meta, X, and Google.