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.

i dabble with ai using open data from crypto https://alexpaden.tech

10 seconds of propaganda is still 0 seconds of real news

the same reason we discourage someone from reciting headlines if they haven't actually read the story behind the headline.