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.

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.