{"id":942355,"date":"2025-06-30T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942355"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:49:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:19:30","slug":"using-tiktok-could-be-making-you-more-politically-polarised-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/using-tiktok-could-be-making-you-more-politically-polarised-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarised: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People on TikTok tend to follow accounts that align with their own political beliefs, meaning the platform is creating political echo chambers among its users. <\/p>\n<p>These findings, from a study my collaborators, Yanlin Li and Homero Gil de Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, and I published in the academic journal New Media &amp; Society, show that people mostly hear from voices they already agree with. <\/p>\n<p>We analysed the structure of different political networks on TikTok and found that right-leaning communities are more isolated from other political groups and from mainstream news outlets. Looking at their internal structures, the right-leaning communities are more tightly connected than their left-leaning counterparts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on TikTok tend to follow accounts that align with their own political beliefs, meaning the platform is creating political echo chambers among its users. These findings, from a study my collaborators, Yanlin Li and Homero Gil de Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, and I published in the academic journal New Media &amp; Society, show that people mostly hear from voices they already agree with. We analysed the structure of different political networks on TikTok and found that right-leaning communities are more isolated from other political groups and from mainstream news outlets. Looking at their internal structures, the right-leaning communities are more tightly connected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}