A new study by the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, conducted with the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and research firm Bondata, found that right-wing content dominated across social media platforms, including Instagram, X and TikTok. They accounted for 58% of political posts, compared to 26% left-wing and 16% centrist content.
Notably, this pattern persisted even when the researchers’ test accounts (avatars) signalled an interest in left-leaning political content.
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This needs a clear way to define what is left and what is right content. Not because I doubt the results of the study, but because we as people are skewed. I’m certainly skewed to the left, though I feel most people I interact with are skewed to the right. Considering these biases, it seems important to me to objectively define the center.
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Logical consequence since people have had enough.