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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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10 seconds of propaganda is still 0 seconds of real news
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the same reason we discourage someone from reciting headlines if they haven't actually read the story behind the headline.
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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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I assumed you meant actual contradiction, not just headlines with differently and conflicting rhetorical charges. That's a different problem; my position is unchanged: aggressive summaries needfully misrepresent complex ideas as simple. A more faithful transmission of those concepts would take longer than ten seconds.
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Hold up, let me make sure I actually understand your position. Earlier you asked how a ten second headline was substantially different from a ten minute article, yeah? There are a few ways to approach this in the affirmative, if so.
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The average news headline in America is typically around 6-8 words. The average TikTok video contains approximately 10-15 words.
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https://i.imgur.com/PrPa6Cd.png
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