We investigate the issue of stance representation at the platform level, and differences in experience at the individual level, in the context of two controversial, mostly two-sided issues: the legality of abortion in the U.S., and the Israel/Hamas conflict; we do so on TikTok. In manually annotated representative samples containing over 3.8k videos and spanning a combined 37 weeks, we measure the number of videos available on the platform and the views these videos receive, separated by the sta

Majority Rules: Polarizing Content Dissemination and User Experience on TikTok
Damon McCoy
