In burger corp (USA) the internet is censored to keep the people uninformed about different world events.

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TikTok has literally nothing to do with informing tho... it's literally the opposite.
- Then you haven’t used it. The Reddit stream of 100% hate towards TikTok without understanding it is a very bad take. It provided a ton of momentum in recent US social movements.
  
  Ya it's literally the easiest way to get a quick video on something you wanna learn. Not to mention (unlike other platforms) you get a friendly face that teaches it to you
  
  Right! I don’t get the hate
  
  Because there's no critical thought about who is delivering that information to you, where they got it from, what biases and/or agendas they may or may not have, etc...
  If you are learning about the world through 15 second videos of a random internet stranger talking about a subject, then you are going to end up with a fucked up (and just objectively incorrect) worldview. But I guess it's OK because they have a friendly face.
  
  You comment as if me reading your 15 second comment isn’t the same. Who are you to judge if unknown viewers think critically? This is a cringe take carried over from reddit
  
  on lemmy you are usually provided sources tho
  
  And videos can’t right? This is really tiring.
  
  they can but usually don't, when tiktok was pretty new I became a nazi because of it and I stayed that until I saw how the government (any and every government) is a corrupt force that lies to you amd hurts you in other ways
  
  The tiktoks I watch provide sources. You gotta get a smarter foryou page
- All news agencies in my country have a tik tok account and regularly use it to publish exactly the same news as they do on their newspapers or on TV. I don't see how watching that news on tik tok is any different that turning on the TV and watching it there.
- I dunno... I was informed a lot on TikTok. Like, 2020-2022 I had a whole lot of "I was X years old when I learned this..." thanks to Black and Brown creators who got a voice on TikTok that was lacking anywhere else.
- It's literally the main reason people found out there was a genocide happening in Gaza.
  
  Who?
  
  You ?
  
  You ?
  
  That's simply not true, you just spend too much time on TikTok
  
  I'm simply engaging with reality. The funny part that this is openly admitted, but here we have you pretending it's not the case. https://www.commondreams.org/news/mitt-romney-tiktok
  
  This doesn't prove your point at all, there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza. If you spent time outside of the brain rot app maybe you'd know this.
  
  What number of people found out about it from tv and what number found out on tiktok? I wouldn't be surprised if the tiktok number was higher. I don't know why you're so sure it isn't
  
  🤡
  
  there are plenty of other media outlets that were and still are reporting on Gaza
  Who?
  And I mean who, as in creators putting out that content covering it, that actually has reach with the general public?
- You just need to train your algorithm, my tik tok always show a lot of interesting educational stuff. I can't remember the last time I saw any kind of soft porn there, my Instagram on the other hand is always shoving big and hard gym booties on my face.

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