Not that I think TikTok is particularly spotless but this sounds like the result of an algorithm learning what groups will engage with, ie democratic leaning accounts were more likely to do _something_ with republican content than vice versa.
Yeah. I remember Facebook used to appear to show me more of certain stuff that annoyed me (not political stuff so much as scammy stuff) because I hovered or even reported it. The most naive and high-level keyword based association is going to link both pro and anti trans stuff as the same general category too (another Facebook thing was the massive overlap between history and really dumb "alternative history")
This is interesting but I still think we have some responsibility here. What if most people hold some view in a low-grade kind of way but algorithms like this could accidentally (or intentionally) amplify it to the point of genocide. The story of Rwanda is well known and we can imagine it being much worse if we're not careful with this kind of technology.
