ted (not lasso)
@ted
this is meaningfully concerning. TikTok is a great platform for entertainment, and a terrible one for news. its capacity to cause harmful social contagions is unparalleled. vids have 3 secs to capture attention (10 words) with zero way to fact check content (unlike community notes), and the algo boosts controversy.
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@alexpaden
can you dive deeper into why it's concerning? I think of it like 10 second videos or 0 seconds of news
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
10 seconds of propaganda is still 0 seconds of real news
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@alexpaden
if the real news is 10 minutes of saying a school was shot up, why is 10 seconds worse? if the story is a school being shot up, the political propaganda is white, black, christian, muslim, incel, left, right, and etc i see it as depth vs breadth mostly. maybe the everything app will help
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
the same reason we discourage someone from reciting headlines if they haven't actually read the story behind the headline.
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@alexpaden
i think this argument can probably be scaled to a single article, book, and everything short of a jury trial. two contradictory headlines probably give a better perspective than one targeted full-length content piece it sounds more like the case for community notes than non-short form content
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
the TikTok algorithm isn't designed to show users two contradictory headlines; it is designed to show users the one headline they are already biased into reading and believing.
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wake
@wake.eth
Nah. Contradictory statements produce no information whatsoever. It is the case that (X attacked Y) It is not the case that (X attacked Y) And yet human brains will prefer one over the other. We don't process information in a way suitable to ten second sound bites, no matter the topic.
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