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.
Personally, I don't think it has had much of an impact. Plenty of people got their info from social media before short form content and held reactionary viewpoints. Certainly true that these people aren't willing to hear pushback, but this also isn't anything new. There were plenty of men denying the existence of patriarcy, whites denying the existence of white privilege, and liberals running defence for the bourgeoisie before tiktok and being completely unwilling to deal with even mild pushback in good faith.
Personally, I believe all this can be explained as the result of these people following the logical conclusion of their own sef interest. Obviously whites deny white privilege because they are beneficiaries of the oppresion they have meted out, for example. Social media did not create misogyny, "colour-blindism", or liberalism. These things are products of living in a society where capital is the eternal dictator and has a vested interest in maintaining reactionary and idealist dominance. The internet is just the primary machine through which incorrect ideology is disseminated, but lets not pretend this is unprecedented given that this was preseded by a century or more of bourgeois-owned tv, radio, and newspapers.