> A quarter of US adults say they always use TikTok to get the news, with nearly half of US millennial and Gen Z adults – under-41s and under-25s respectively – indicating the same, according to analysis firm Forrester Research.
I find this shocking. Is there a worse way to get news? Maybe RT or OANN.
Which one is a worse place to go for news: 4chan.org/pol (don't go there if you haven't been before) or cnn.com? Personally I'm not sure. The curation in tiktok sounds particularly disturbing though since it would just form a feedback loop with whatever the algorithm decides you're "most interested in."
They go on to say "The truth, they say, is the first casualty of war," and to ask for money, in that very article. No matter how many times this happens, the Guardian will never get blacklisted on HN as a purveyor of fake news.
I vouched for your dead comment because it's just... terrible.
This article cites Ukrainian military sources and says "reportedly". It's a war, they can't verify much on the ground, so they report what official sources are saying. What do you want them to do? Ignore the whole war?
I find this shocking. Is there a worse way to get news? Maybe RT or OANN.