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And now it’s fascist owned by an elderly gentleman, and a rapist president. Good luck fighting the next level of propaganda America.
No no, it’s fine, because they’re teaching critical thinking and media literacy in schools, and – [checks notes] oh wait. Oh shit.
Double plus ungood!
And now you know why our illustrious 🤮 government was so keen on buying TikTok. They want the younger gen to get their news from them. Horse wormer, anti vax, anti science, free speech only for the Cons, eduction bad, bigotry and hate wholesale…
It’s either getting the news that’s approved by the US government or news that’s approved by the Beijing government.
Either way it’s authoritarians pulling the strings. But it seems Beijing paid the appropriate bribes so TikTok will have “news” that approved by the Beijing authoritarians, but if there’s too much “news” not approved by the US authoritarians they’ll need to pay more bribes. So this is a great source of information to trust!
ivermectin is approved for human use and does get prescribed for parasitic infections. ivermectin in a dish killed covid. it basically ended there, but there were multiple older common drugs that turned out to actually have a positive effect on covid recovery and prevention. at some point it wasn’t actually scientifically obvious whether ivermectin would have a positive effect, and we also need to take that into account. just snarking “these idiots are taking horse dewormer” doesn’t help anyone, especially not when it was an open question and there were personal anecdotes about recovery and a whole bunch of uncertainty and policy mismanagement. people were regularly confronted with death, and that requires a lot of empathy to think about.
“News”
Maybe I should start a TikTok account dedicated to teaching basic science.
Probably wouldn’t go anywhere because of the algorithm, but it might be a fun experiment.
I’ve seen some of this from my wife watching TikTok and most of it is just some rando’s floating head reading a snippet of an article on top of a cropped screenshot of said snippet. Like, just read the whole article at that point.
Video readouts of articles drive me absolutely nuts, to the point where I download the transcript if I can’t find a link.
I have ADD, so maybe that’s why. I dunno. But I don’t get how people prefer a talking head; it’s so much slower than reading.
I mean… I get my news from lemmy/piefed, am I part of the problem?
I think it matters that Lemmy doesn’t have a commercial nor biased algorithm nor a system to pay or at least reward creators. That’s what makes commercial social media so toxic and full of misinformation. As long as you stay away from grad and hex, and maybe consume .ml with a grain of salt, you’re good
At least some of us click through to the articles once in a while instead of consuming it through 20sec vertical video edits.
I’m honestly surprised it’s only 20%
Bad, but Fox hosts are talking about bombing the UN and executing homeless people so really it can’t be much worse than msm…
Before TikTok the big shocker was that most Americans got their news from The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
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Social media of any kind was a mistake
I recognize the irony of agreeing with you on a social media platform :>
I don’t really consoder things like lemmy and reddit a social media though. It’s a different beast
Isn’t reddit late stage enshitification by now?
It is bu I still would not exactly class it as a social media
Because it’s content based and not person based?
Kinda yeah. You follow communities/subreddits for a topic you don’t really follow people.
You post stuff related to communities not personal photos necessarily.
Your feed is curated by what communities you follow not just random stuff (reddit could be argued to be going the second route).
Pre-enshitification Facebook was you joined groups and followed people and saw the posts in the groups and what your friends posted. The random stuff is enshitification, vacation pictures didn’t make Facebook toxic
Fuck me.
I only use mbin/lemmy but I can’t believe that tiktok is any worse than TV or newspapers.
Even leaving aside fox and sinclair, major networks uncritically report the regime’s narratives. NYT has rarely been anything more than a mouthpiece for the powerful and has been working hand in glove to sell people israel’s lies, WaPo is a shit show.
“Get news” just means you hear it there first…
