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Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds

  • Written by Zicheng Cheng, Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, University of Arizona
imageAre you in an echo chamber on TikTok?LeoPatrizi/E+ via Getty Images

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 Zúñiga, and I published in the...

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