X Is Amplifying Far-Right Accounts

TikTok is far right? I know the fyp is very personalized, but I can't think of a single far right video I've seen. Occasionally I'll see comments on videos from people who don't like wind turbines, but that's about it.

How much is intentional and how much is from the fact that far right content tends to be aimed at the amygdala? It’s usually crafted to inspire either outrage or fear. Those emotions have also been shown to maximize attention, and attention is what the algorithm seeks.

It also tends to be polarizing. If you react with disgust because you disagree, the algorithm also picks that up as engagement.

I do see more far right content on algorithmic social media and I’ve always suspected this is why. When I see lefty content it’s almost always when it’s of a similar form: outrage or fear bait.

I rarely see any form of political content on those platforms that is thoughtful or positive, because that doesn’t maximize engagement.

Of course I rarely look at any of those hellscapes anymore. All algorithmic social media is a worthless addictive attention trap.

I’d also add that there’s a lot of money in producing astro-turf content. All of those “influencers” effectively auditioning to see if they can go viral enough for one of the right-wing outfits to hire them, the bot farms promoting certain stories, etc. exist to employ voices and make it seem like their ideas are closer to evenly shared. There aren’t left-wing billionaires funding that so the same kind of network doesn’t exist.

In other words, the format is intrinsically biased towards engagement of any type. Trolls get engagement.

Calls for the abolition of police were pretty common on old Twitter.

Ever notice how people refuse to accept that their view on politics has a leaning? That a leftists' idea of what constitutes far left might require tankies (ie. accounts that advocate violent imposition of communism/socialism by an external force like Russia or terrorism), whereas for rightist far left might mean as little as limits on enforcement of immigration rules.

Just yesterday there was news about a protest in a cinema in Paris, where the police essentially invaded, and yes, beat people attempting to stop them into the hospital, and arrested "the core" of the protest. The police's story is that a small group tried to set the cinema on fire (very French of them, I must say, what's a protest without something on fire?), which is kind of confirmed by them arresting like 0.1% of the protestors, showing torches they found on the protestors, a big scorch mark on the floor, plus they let the protest continue. Of course, on the internet the only intention of the police using, granted, a LOT of force (as soon as they saw the torch, according to the police statement), preventing protestors from setting an old wooden Parisian building with more than 1000 people inside on fire was to protect Israeli aggression/colonialism (there was an Israeli concert happening) ... For now the newspapers and TV are a bit more on the sane side, but every year that passes more and more newspapers are joining the lunatics on the left or right (and truth be told, mostly on the left)

yea feels like media should do both so for every “far-right” story which are happening pretty much hourly the media should make up a “far-left” story to counter it, it is only fair :)

The center is those getting flamed evenly from the 'left' and 'right'.

That's because there isn't a significant "far left" in the US. Democrats today are not too far from where they were in the 2000s.

Republicans on the other hand are way farther right than they were then. For a good illustration go read Republican Party Platforms from then.

The 2008 Platform for instance talked about the need to greatly reduce the use of fossil fuels to reduce climate change, and called for the government to push for electric and alternate fuel cars and for making gas cars more efficient, and for pushing for renewable energy.

We do not have a “far left” political bloc in this country.

It's because the far-right is in power all over the world, while I can't really think of a single far-left government anywhere. It's just not as big of an issue.

> but seldom see headlines about ‘far left’ things.

Because we have far right domination of the party currently enjoying a trifecta in the federal government, while the far left in the US is split between a tiny minority of the opposition party and various politically-irrelevant minor parties.

Before its recent sharp right turn, it was widely argued that the US was a "center-right" country; it is now, by government if not necessarily popular sentiment, a far right one.

From the article:

>"Specifically, the Sky News team ran a study where they created nine new Twitter/X accounts, three left-wing, three right-wing, and three politically neutral, and then tracked what content got dumped into their “For You” tabs on the Elon Musk-owned social media service during a one-month period in 2025"