Selectively reducing or excluding some events as not newsworthy while promoting others is observable when using ticktock and the underlying means of propaganda people are concerned about.

For a US example you can simply count the minutes of coverage Fox News and CNN give to various stories for the same basic effect. How much coverage you gives the Russia- Ukraine war can be just as impactful as if you refer to it as a Russian invasion or not.

At least you think you are way better informed.

I don't use TikTok, but I use Facebook and Google's short video versions. I find just as many anti-CCP as pro-CCP content on it, and...I guess these are mostly TikTok videos because many of them still have TikTok watermarks.

I don't know if I've ever met a tiktok addict that's well informed.

How well informed are people who talk about TikTok addicts, though?

Well they know enough to know it's not a reliable source in anyway, so probably better than most?

ok zoomer

Don't take my question as aggresive, but why do you think you're "way better informed" since you started using it? Better informed on what?

What the algorithm decided to inform them on.

Have you even used TikTok? Facebook connects you with the people around you, and TikTok connects you with your favorite people on earth. That's the essence of the product.

How would you know?

> I’m way better informed since I started using it.

I'm legitimately terrified to know what this means.

Presumably it means they base their opinions of Gaza on videos of what's actually happening there rather than on propaganda statements by the IDF.

I've found way more false news and stuff on TikTok than anywhere else, even about innocuous things and not something serious like a war. It's taken on the form of modern day chain mails in the way it spreads lies, with the participants being the most invested. They all think they're doing citizen journalism yet most of them verify nothing.

Let me not even get started on the deep fakes lurking on the platform.

Not only is there more false info on Tiktok, the user comes away with high certainty they are being reliably informed. Because accounts popular on Tiktok focus strictly on presentation and entertainment, not anything actual journalists prioritize.

The effect is less informed with higher certainty, and terrible combination for training citizens for actual civil discourse.

"Jews control the media" isn't an opinion worth debating. Move on

It's less that and more brown people aren't humanized, so media is too skittish to call a spade a spade.

Everyone who you ask will tell you that ads never work on them, yet we all buy branded shit.

Same thing with propaganda used by social media.

This video illustrates the effects of it: https://youtu.be/pB7WzqUq4Nk?t=324