Is this the reason then why TikTok is already banned in China, TikTok’s parent company’s home country? Because media there is lying?
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
tardigrada@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
homicidalrobot@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Because they have Douyin.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Yay for china banning stuff! \s
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks 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.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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.