Auditing Differential Visibility of Political Content on TikTok
arXiv:2607.17356v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Allegations that TikTok shadow bans political content shape what creators post, what advertisers fund, and how regulators act, yet they are hard to adjudicate because platforms do not disclose how content is ranked. We test the claim with a dense hourly panel of 556,946 follower-normalized views across 2,753 videos from 67 accounts curated into pro and anti sides of three contested topics (U.S. immigration enforcement, Trump coverage, and Israel/
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Published: 21 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.CY
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation · Transparency
Retrieved: 21 July 2026
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