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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!
Fuck me.
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...
Before TikTok the big shocker was that most Americans got their news from The Daily Show and Colbert Report.
I mean… I get my news from lemmy/piefed, am I part of the problem?
At least some of us click through to the articles once in a while instead of consuming it through 20sec vertical video edits.
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.
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
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...
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.
Where do you get your news from, OP? Corporate newspapers? Sinclair news media? Facebook feed?
I don't have a TikTok account but they're probably doing something right if the US federal government is trying to reign them in.
The US government is trying to control the platform to further push their right-wing propaganda.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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