More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking social media trend

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/10/21/more-americans-are-getting-news-on-tiktok-bucking-the-trend-on-other-social-media-sites/

by gmays • 4 years ago

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Kukumber2• 4 years ago

I find it very hard to believe, they probably either misunderstood the question, or the question asked was more than "do you go to tiktok to check the news?"

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

Bakary2• 4 years ago

By news they mean users who film themselves talking about news topics in a particular way that is adapted to the platform

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

Kukumber2• 4 years ago

Do you use TikTok yourself?

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

More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking social media trend

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