That’s terrifying. Not even because the source is a Chinese company, it’s that it’s a social media company and not a trustworthy source
Do you think they’re watching news videos on TikTok? It’s just where they hear their peers talk about stuff.
And the article has a graph showing those same kids (from the UK btw) use BBC as their most common news source. It’s just they broke down “BBC” into a bunch of subcategories till a social media company was #1.
Because “12-15 year olds in the UK use the UK’s largest news organization as their source for news” wouldn’t get many clicks.
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I’m not sure how informed any 13 year old is, so this doesn’t concern me - what concerns me is that most 12-15 year olds are just putting in massive hours on this nonsense. My partner’s 13 yr old spends, no exaggeration, 8 hours/day on TikTok. If not more. I just started looking at access time on my pi-hole and router out of curiosity and it is disturbing. He is not an outlier.
A demographic notoriously known for being well informed. /s
eh… what demographic is well informed these days?..
