How TikTok's algorithm works: A fascinating and disturbing analysis

How TikTok’s algorithm works is probably the company’s most closely guarded secret. But the WSJ thinks it was able to work it out using a bunch of bot accounts - and the results were both fascinating and disturbing. A former Google engineer who worked on YouTube’s algorithm says that it takes essentially the same approach, but in a less extreme form … more… The post How TikTok’s algorithm works: A fascinating and disturbing analysis appeared first on 9to5Mac.