Congress: TikTok Users Being 'Radicalized' By Seeing Multiple Viewpoints
Classified report warns of dangerous exposure to different perspectives
Classified report warns of dangerous exposure to different perspectives
This one isn't going to age well.
Based on my experience, having never used TT myself, but married to someone who does and friends with people who do...
You DON'T really get different perspectives. In ANY of those platform styles.
It's literally designed to show you whatever you engage most with, and usually that's "things that get you angry" regardless of who you are. For my wife, it's "here's how my family is shitty/aita" for some of my friends it's "here's how I was being misgendered/deadnamed/not accepted" and for some people I know, it's "here's a person who is not cis/white/christian/male existing in my general area"
I guess you get the different perspectives if you know a wide variety of people who use it and don't actually use it yourself?
You might however get different perspectives from those that lawmakers or other powerful people want people to mostly see. (True on TikTok and all other social media. I consider it one of the greatest achievements of the Internet that it makes it a lot harder for the powerful to maintain an "overton window" and I consider it one of the most important societal causes to make sure they can't undo that achievement.)
Earlier today I shared this story https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban-fueled-by-israel-not-china which may or may not have been an inspiration for the story in the OP, but is definitely an example.
The thing is, this article isn't as satirical as the authors intended. We absolutely know that a lot of republicans would ban media they perceived as having a leftist lean if they could get away with it. And as soon as Trump and Elon have eroded our rights enough, they will.
If it's against Israelli propaganda the dems are also tickled to accommodate the same censorshjp😂. We're really on our own out there.
Multiple view points when you sign onto X. Here are some suggested friends.
