Please people stop posting that "study" or at least read it before you take any conclusions from it. Good god it's terrible science. Like even if it's not obvi

Please people stop posting that "study" or at least read it before you take any conclusions from it. Good god it's terrible science. Like even if it's not obvious to you how using Instagram as a "reference" for hashtags is not a good baseline it still doesn't mean anything in terms of how the content is spread because how are you going to detect algorithmic boosting and suppression by counting user generated content? A million posts with #cheesetastesbad could get less actual views than ten posts with #pro-cheese. And this is before accounting for vastly different tagging culture between social networks and different users entirely. https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/the-truth-about-tiktok-hashtags-and-content-during-the-israel-hamas-war https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/the-truth-about-tiktok-has... > Blunt comparisons of hashtags is severely flawed and misrepresentative of the activity on TikTok. > It’s critical to understand that hashtags on the platform are created and added to videos by content creators, not TikTok. Millions of people in regions such as the Middle East and South East Asia account for a significant proportion of views on hashtags. Therefore, there’s more content with #freepalestine and #standwithpalestine and more overall views. It is easy to cherry pick hashtags to support a false narrative about the platform. TikTok could be completely totally bold-faced evil and this study still wouldn't be good evidence of it.