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.
Much harder to manipulate a decentralized system and inject propaganda and misinformation than it is a centralized one with ties to the local government.
Sinclair media is equally disturbing, but very few people question the reach it has into American homes.
Not to mention the consolidation of the rest of the news landscape.
There’s several levels of trust here. I don’t trust TikTok to serve me anything critical of China, and I know they tend to downshift certain lifestyle creators. But I trust TikTok to give me better on the ground information about a current/emergent event than I do our American corporate media companies, who regularly black out certain topics with near impunity.
People have been eating shit from sources like the Sun UK tabloid for decades. I don’t think tiktok is stellar and I think governments should enforce local governance on the platform (i.e. local servers and executives). But is it a new terrifying thing?
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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Yeah that’s definitely misleading click bait there
And adults get their news from Facebook.
You realize that Lemmy is social media right?
Lemmy is a way of life
Die for lemmy
Much harder to manipulate a decentralized system and inject propaganda and misinformation than it is a centralized one with ties to the local government.
Sinclair media is equally disturbing, but very few people question the reach it has into American homes.
Not to mention the consolidation of the rest of the news landscape.
There’s several levels of trust here. I don’t trust TikTok to serve me anything critical of China, and I know they tend to downshift certain lifestyle creators. But I trust TikTok to give me better on the ground information about a current/emergent event than I do our American corporate media companies, who regularly black out certain topics with near impunity.
People have been eating shit from sources like the Sun UK tabloid for decades. I don’t think tiktok is stellar and I think governments should enforce local governance on the platform (i.e. local servers and executives). But is it a new terrifying thing?
Previously on X-Men: Reddit was my primary news source