Comment on TikTok users particularly susceptible to Russian and Chinese misinformation, study finds

cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

JFC, this is terrifying:

The view of young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening at fundamental scientific findings.

For example, only 71 percent of those under 29 years old agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTok users, the approval is even lower with 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, every fifth, and around a quarter of all TikTok users, even openly doubt this decades-long insight.

Young people and the population as a whole seem to be shockingly agreed on the issue of climate change alone: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it is only a little more than half.

And the corona pandemic also remains a source of conspiracy theories. A quarter of the total population agrees with the statement that the pandemic was deliberately created by governments or elites in order to be able to control the population more. This dangerous narrative seems to be particularly widespread on TikTok: there, almost 44 percent of users agree with him.

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