Auditing Algorithmic Personalization in TikTok Comment Sections

2026-03-27T08:52:18Z84c6fadafc3f1b005522ee9c2d3d1ee2eeee9e9e2055f6eb8bdcd5c3c530a490
FakeAgentTikTokWildFakeBenchYouTubealgorithmic personalizationauditingbenchmarkscontent moderationcross-site trackingdatasetsdigital divideinfluence operationsmicro-videomisinformationmultimodal detectiononline advertisingpaywallsprivacyrecommendation systemsvalues extraction

What happened

This collection contains recent research on algorithmic personalization, misinformation, and online information ecosystems with implications for privacy, political manipulation, and content moderation. Key items: an audit of TikTok comment personalization showing partisan-aligned comment ranking divergence correlated with comment volume, engagement inequality, and partisan skew; an audit framework for measuring how cross-site web tracking (off-platform browsing) influences YouTube political and misinformation recommendations and whether privacy-focused browsers mitigate that effect; WildFakeB​

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arxiv_cs_si
Record identifier
84c6fadafc3f1b005522ee9c2d3d1ee2eeee9e9e2055f6eb8bdcd5c3c530a490
Enrichment time
2026-03-27T08:52:18Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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