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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Was the 2024 Election Stolen, Not by Ballots, but by Algorithms?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

The Hartmann Report, Climate Change, Democracy, News, America, Debate, Congress, Economics, Thom Hartmann

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

New data suggests social media algorithms didn’t just influence voters; they may have tilted the entire outcome…

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So was the 2024 elections stolen not by ballots, but by algorithms? It sure looks like tech billionaires and foreign dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024.

1:14.1

This is as bad as the massive Russian bot presence on Facebook and Twitter back in 2016

1:19.3

that Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency the last time.

1:24.9

A peer-reviewed study released yesterday in Nature, the world's most prestigious

1:29.0

scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the

1:33.7

2024 election was called for Trump and Republicans in Congress by the big networks.

1:39.0

The algorithms that control our largest social media platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field,

1:46.9

and they tilted it for Donald Trump and the GOP.

1:50.3

Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of sock puppet TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia via VPN,

1:59.1

uploaded to them either pro-democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings,

2:05.0

and then watched what TikTok's algorithm fed back to them every day over the next 27 weeks leading up to Election Day.

2:13.6

Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republicans-seated accounts received about 11.5% more

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