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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Jawa
@jawa
Is this be better or worse than the majority of older Americans that get their news from Fox?
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ted (not lasso)
@ted
good question, I’ll have to think about it. one difference is that older Americans have lived 30+ years longer than the 18-29yos; they have a much greater lifetime news consumption, which makes Fox potentially less impactful or influential their POV compared to the younger people using TikTok*. *theory, not fact.
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