How do they account for variation in demographics of the user bases and the potential that Instagram is also promoting/demoting certain types of content?
China has a separate app like TikTok and TikTok is not allowed inside China. I don’t see where in the PDF they address demographics but could you explain how you think that factors into this analysis? The numbers indicate they’re global like other massive social networks.
Also, is the issue with Instagram political in nature like TikTok and China? At first glance it looks like the distribution is controlled based on their publicly available content guidelines. Doesn’t that make it inherently different than non-public content manipulation?
The first line of the article is:
>analyzed hashtag ratios between Instagram and TikTok