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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@shoni.eth
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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@shoni.eth
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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@shoni.eth
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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@shoni.eth
Right but I think the content length and TikTok/TikTok’s single algorithm are really different things. Was not implying that TikTok and their influence on Americans wasn’t noteworthy, just that I don’t fully agree with content length. Admittedly I’ve found better content on tiktok than YouTube shorts.
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@coachcoale
In other words... Platform is great at showing me the things I know I already know. What happened to the importance of provoking awareness?
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