Comment on More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers

• DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The cable news networks are losing their chokehold on media. Young people can see the truth that the government and the media are lying about daily

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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Young people see news influencers on social media which are even less trustworthy as traditional news outlets.

    It’s the “I did my own research” of news.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      TBH the news that I get from social media is usually first-hand accounts and footage. It’s far superior to the extremely filtered and propagandized disinformation coming from capitalist media outlets.

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  • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Is this the reason then why TikTok is already banned in China, TikTok’s parent company’s home country? Because media there is lying?

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    • homicidalrobot@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Because they have Douyin.

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    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yay for china banning stuff! \s

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• SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  TikTok

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