I explicitly did not mention HackerNews, as the homepage feed is primarily based on user voting - neither algorithms nor chronology. Dang’s moderation is not comparable to other social media platform’s feed curation.
there is a difference between removing problematic content and actively promoting content
Again, there is sufficient evidence that all major social media platforms do exactly this, not just TikTok. Hence why I said:
> The conservative right often labels such curation as liberal propaganda.
where this kind of thing is possible and leaves little paper trail
Could you point to the paper trail that Meta, Google, Twitter provide on their curation actions? Otherwise, this just proves my point that people blindly want to accuse Chinese platforms of shady activities, and Western ones as paragons of virtue.
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I explicitly did not mention HackerNews, as the homepage feed is primarily based on user voting - neither algorithms nor chronology. Dang’s moderation is not comparable to other social media platform’s feed curation.
Again, there is sufficient evidence that all major social media platforms do exactly this, not just TikTok. Hence why I said:
Could you point to the paper trail that Meta, Google, Twitter provide on their curation actions? Otherwise, this just proves my point that people blindly want to accuse Chinese platforms of shady activities, and Western ones as paragons of virtue.