Could social media algorithms exacerbate disordered eating? A new study analyzed the TikTok algorithms of people with and without an eating disorder, with striking results.
Greater severity of eating disorder symptoms was related to more problematic TikTok algorithms., only to realize that much more time has passed than you realized, or intended to spend on social media in the first place! Nowadays, what we see on our social media feeds is determined by algorithms , and their primary aim is to increase the amount of time we spend there.
In addition to providing their TikTok data, the participants also completed questionnaires to assess their current levels of eating disorder symptoms. Importantly, although participants with an eating disorder were more likely to “like” these types of videos, this likelihood was far eclipsed by much higher rates of delivery of these videos by their algorithms. The researchers even identified a subset of participants who appeared to be in anThis meant that their algorithms delivered over 1,000 appearance-related videos over the past month, and that a majority of the videos shown to them were appearance-related.
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