That’s terrifying. Not even because the source is a Chinese company, it’s that it’s a social media company and not a trustworthy source
Do you think they’re watching news videos on TikTok? It’s just where they hear their peers talk about stuff.
And the article has a graph showing those same kids (from the UK btw) use BBC as their most common news source. It’s just they broke down “BBC” into a bunch of subcategories till a social media company was #1.
Because “12-15 year olds in the UK use the UK’s largest news organization as their source for news” wouldn’t get many clicks.
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I view TT as a platform, not a source as a whole. There are absolutely great sources of news on TT. And honestly, I’d rather have one good quality source that can get me a daily rundown of headlines in a 3 minute or less video than spend hours watching headlines like you would on a 24 hour news channel.
You realize that Lemmy is social media right?
Much harder to manipulate a decentralized system and inject propaganda and misinformation than it is a centralized one with ties to the local government.
And by “news” we mean “whatever dumb shit an ‘influencer’ has come up with today to move clicks.”
One of the first interactions I had with tiktok was when a woman went viral for doing a dance video with some pop song and had text running along the screen about the death of her abusive husband. It was so weird seeing this grown woman do a kids dance to some Kpop song while text is detailing who he beat her. All put on public display forever.
Social media does weird things to people’s brains man.
A demographic notoriously known for being well informed. /s
eh… what demographic is well informed these days?..
Chairman Pooh must be pleased that his propagandists now have unfettered access to the worlds largest repository of “Five Nights at Freddy’s” knowledge.
I’m not sure how informed any 13 year old is, so this doesn’t concern me - what concerns me is that most 12-15 year olds are just putting in massive hours on this nonsense. My partner’s 13 yr old spends, no exaggeration, 8 hours/day on TikTok. If not more. I just started looking at access time on my pi-hole and router out of curiosity and it is disturbing. He is not an outlier.
Sadly, that is the worst platfom to look for anything. It’s mostly just a bunch of freaks seeking validation.
I remember being 13-15 and not caring at all what the news was. Better times, I think
I’m 35 and I still don’t really care about the news. Not looking at all the misery keeps me a little more sane.
39% use some form of the BBC compared to 28% using TikTok.
The study found that for children aged 12-15, TikTok is now the most used single source of news across all platforms at 28%, followed by YouTube and Instagram at 25% each. However, the BBC still has the highest reach of any news organisation among this age group when all its news outlets – across BBC iPlayer, radio stations, websites and TV channels – are counted, at 39%.
Do you expect 12-15 year olds to read the newspaper? Chances are you get your own news from social media. I don’t give a single fuck if a 13 year old even keeps up with the news. In fact, I’d prefer they didn’t.
