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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tik tok is at the root of so many of the social issues we're facing today. It's absolutely worse than Facebook, although both need to be addressed.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It has a huge hold over our youth today, even folks up to 30. It’s so ubiquitous it’s used as a replacement for Google to find new information including political.

Problem is it’s absolutely chock full of misinformation and propaganda, which doesn’t just exist on the platform, but is actively pushed on American youth today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's full of misinformation and propaganda unlike... You know... All those super reliable objective sources of information that you use?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh yes VERY unlike those. Anything that can be traced and verified, aren’t read to you by an AI voice or a white person claiming to be an American while trying very hard to suppress an Eastern European or East Asian accent. Another good trait to have would be anything that isn’t verifiably false.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but this is giving 'old man yells at clouds' energy. How is tiktok any worse than any other social media platform? They're all echochambers filled with misinformation, it just what happens when you get a lot of people online.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

That you're trying to 'they're all the same' bs shows how ignorant many people are on this. They're not all the same, this one is especially bad and it's not JUST because it turns you into a fucking retard when you use it.