• EddieTee77@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        Much harder to manipulate a decentralized system and inject propaganda and misinformation than it is a centralized one with ties to the local government.