TikTok
The structural critique is intellectually consistent with how YouTube and TikTok recommendation systems work. no CRTC discoverability order has been imposed on YouTube, TikTok, or any user-generated-content platform2.
The structural critique is intellectually consistent with how YouTube and TikTok recommendation systems work
no CRTC discoverability order has been imposed on YouTube, TikTok, or any user-generated-content platform
Fact-Check: Bill C-11, Algorithmic Discoverability, and Cana
Watch time and retention as negative signals at low values
C-11 discoverability rules may apply to YouTube/TikTok user-generated content
Fact-Check: Bill C-11, Algorithmic Discoverability, and Cana
Eugene Wei's industry analysis argues that platforms like TikTok have replaced the "social graph" with an "interest graph".
Research Pass for "The Medium Becomes the Ground": Evidence
These are things people say about TikTok that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.
"C-11 discoverability rules will harm creators"
"C-11 discoverability rules will ultimately apply to YouTube/TikTok user-generated content"
"Successful Canadian digital creators who rely on international viewers for 90%+ of their income saw their global reach actively suppressed"
"YouTube and TikTok are not neutral parties"
"Senator Paula Simons dismissed creator algorithm concerns as fearmongering"
"The scale of any future harm"
"Algorithms pushing videos to geographic audiences caused watch times to crater"