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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@insider
People are every time horrified to discover the depths that any information bubble goes to But that was the case with BBS, Usenet, IRC, DC++, forums, yahoo chats, etc It's not about TT. Ppl don't want to read the ancient Washington Post, they want pictures of a hedgehog farting and talking about Trump, that's it
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