More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking social media trend
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If you open tiktok, there is all the content you want but the news
Also what kind of "news" the "researchers" are referring to? does checking about their favorite celebrity/trend count in their definition?
It's dropping for every other social media, so the answer to that probably is:
- americans are not satisfied with the freedom of speech (or perhaps lack of) / quality of the news they find on the official platforms, therefore they are looking elsewhere
And even that, i don't buy it
There is a particular "informational" style that these users adopt for these videos that is increasingly popular as a Zoomer-friendly news source. Of course, in practice the content often has the same informational quality as rumors or bar discussions shared among friends, because that's exactly what it is just with a parasocial instead of a social relationship.
Essentially instead of consuming news directly, they get a curated, (in both a positive and negative sense) orally-transmitted version of it from a source they find enjoyable to listen to in general
I do, i never seen any political content, unlike Twitter/Youtube for example, every trends is related to politics
In TikTok it's mostly creative content
You don't see Musk posting his controversial takes over there