I am primarily referring to media such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube shorts etc. I am fairly young (college age) and I have noticed almost everyone around me primarily gets their news from these apps. I am not entirely opposed to people who this as I understand it makes news accessible. But, I have noticed that the people I know who do this use terminology or at least concepts associated with communist/revolutionary thought while still being adamantly liberal and opposing communism. They also tend to talk about politics more, but they aren't very receptive to any pushback or disagreement (saying you didn't support Kamala Harris was social suicide for awhile).Ironically, the people I know who don't use these platforms for news and basically never use the terminology tend to be a lot more left leaning and I tend to be able to have more nuanced political discussion the most with. I generally avoid short term form media so there's not much I can say from my own experience. For context, I attend a large American University and hang out with diverse groups.
the core of right wing politics is that its easy to understand, relies on quick, memorable slogans while left wing politics gravitate toward more long term knowledge, literature, introspection and theory. people often describe being brain melted by tiktok into joining the far right but nobody says that about joining left wing politics. people describe adopting a left wing worldview through more long form media.