Is TikTok breaking young voters’ brains?

Whose law is it of headlines, that when they ask a question it can be answered with 'No'?

Betteridge gets all the credit, although the origins go back much further.
Or, if you are publishing an article, "Did Betteridge create the rule of headlines?"

The kids are exposed to these hyper addictive algorithms, and the garbage content that gains ubiquity as a result, from a super young age. There is no way it's not screwing up development.

No, it’s just like Dungeons and Dragons, according to others in this thread.
- Good Lord. Was Dungeons and Dragons conceived and engineered from the ground up for the specific purpose of exploiting the dopamine pathways in children's brains? Not so much. Sounds like tiktok has successfully eroded the minds of others in this thread.
- This post scares the hell out of me. My daughter is 5 and sheltered but I know this is coming, I see it in other friends and families. Even the parents get sucked in and tell me about these addictive and fun empty headed music videos and it becomes a family event of consuming YouTube which makes me really question our Idiocracy future...

Just as much as YT, FB, Instagram and whatever else.

I would say facebook is actually much worse. And even though you didn't mention it, X/twitter is as bad as facebook.
- Well that could definitely be the case. I'm amazed how well intact is Twitter still in terms of userbase, despite all the dramas.

Omfg. What a trash article. Great examples of the spin the politicians are trying on, of tiktok. because people can use it to unite against an unjust system and that made them scared and therefore launch a negative campaign and force a take over of the whole app. I mean, come on!! Such a bad article.

There's more misinformation on fb. Marky Z, when asked why he let's all a that just spread around, said, he thinks people can just tell stuff is lies by looking at it. He knows that isn't true.

I mean tik Tok is shit though. The fact that FB and X are also manipulative and shitty doesn't really prove your point.
- It does. American politicians and meta go along really well.
An authoritarian government as evil as China’s having power over that platform compromises it. Tiktok escalates content that hurts western governments but downplays content critical of China. How many times have you heard about the ongoing Uyghur genocide and the over 1 million Uyghurs still imprisoned in China on Tiktok? Israel's genocide of Palestinians is boosted everywhere because it makes America look bad. While all attention brought to work against genocide is good, it’s important to note China has their finger on the scale pushing down content against their interests. China does things just as worthy of Tiktok activism and it is ignored by the algorithm on purpose.
Decentralized social media is really the best option for public discourse in the long run.
- Maybe people are just less interested in accusations against a state on the other side of the planet and much more interested in the open, horrifying and costly crimes committed by their "own".
  edit: Also nobody in the USA is advocating for the oppression of the uyghurs so there's not much to protest here. The situation is almost completely reversed with respect to palestine.

It's Dungeons and Dragons that did. And fidget spinners.

Don't forget the records that convey Satanic messaging when played backwards at 1.5x speed

Yes, but probably only about as much as every other garbage social media trashsite like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

It's not changing them, it's breaking them free of the bullshit authorized narrative the government has over other social media platforms. It allows us to talk to each other which the government does not want. It's a tool for class consciousness.

lol

No.

No more than any other social network and more likely to be less so. This just seems to be a justification for future government action against the app/company.