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728 sats \ 3 replies \ @Michelson_Morley OP 16 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: How to make a viral platfrom meta
Most was whistleblown by a leak from Tiktok a while back, sadly I didn't invent it myself :)
I can find news articles on the leak but not the source.
You wouldn't happen to know where to find the leaked memo would you?
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For sure. I think I read about it in the sort-of-classic "Enshittification" article on Wired.
A few pages down is the text
TikTok's parent company, citing multiple internal sources, revealing the existence of a "heating tool" that TikTok employees use to push videos from select accounts into millions of viewers' feeds.
These videos go into TikTok users' For You feeds, which TikTok misleadingly describes as being populated by videos "ranked by an algorithm that predicts your interests based on your behavior in the app." In reality, For You is only sometimes composed of videos that TikTok thinks will add value to your experience—the rest of the time, it's full of videos that TikTok has inserted in order to make creators think that TikTok is a great place to reach an audience.
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Thanks that's better than what I was able to find but it's still more colored than I'd like.
Your framing is way more straightforward than theirs.
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