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Isn't tiktok's whole thing that it shows you very personally curated content based on data about you including demographics and most users see different content
by Tenoke 5y ago
Isn't tiktok's whole thing that it shows you very personally curated content based on data about you including demographics and most users see different content? Wouldn't users from Ukraine and England or ones from Mexico and America also see different videos?
Are the Ukrainian videos actually unavailable in Russian TikTok if you search for them? It seems obvious that as you watch more non-war stuff (which might be the default based on the demographics) you'll see even less of them in the Russian account. And if you really can't see them even if you try (which the article doesn't even say as far as I saw) then isn't that the real news rather than the experiment that just shows how different demographics see different things on TikTok? What am I missing?
- grenoire 5y agoThe article indeed shows that certain Ukrainian tiktoks are not available to the Russian geolocated IPs.
- yeellow 5y agoIt is mentioned in the article: "Via our Russian IP address, we try to search for some of the war videos that Ukrainian Nykolai has watched. But they simply don’t appear. Someone doesn’t want us to see them. Who?"
- d23 5y agoAre you serious? In the time it took you to write this comment you could have actually read the article to find the exact answer to your question. It's basically the whole point of the post.
- Tenoke 5y agoAt least on phone it only gives you one sentence per page with a slow transition, so it wasn't as quick as you suggest to go over it again to confirm. Either way, the point seemed to be more about the different feeds which is not a surprise anywhere while the real and only relevant information actually is that the content is banned.