A demographic notoriously known for being well informed. /s
TikTok is the most popular news source for 12 to 15-year-olds, says Ofcom
Submitted 1 year ago by SELECTstarFROMreddit@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
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effingjoe@kbin.social 1 year ago
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 year ago
I mean, at that age I started getting interested in politics and worldnews.
effingjoe@kbin.social 1 year ago
And would you consider your past self to have been well informed?
krzschlss@kbin.social 1 year ago
eh.. what demographic is well informed these days?...
PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Chairman Pooh must be pleased that his propagandists now have unfettered access to the worlds largest repository of “Five Nights at Freddy’s” knowledge.
rodhlann@kbin.social 1 year ago
I remember being 13-15 and not caring at all what the news was. Better times, I think
ChrisFhey@kbin.social 1 year ago
I’m 35 and I still don’t really care about the news. Not looking at all the misery keeps me a little more sane.
rodhlann@kbin.social 1 year ago
Honestly I think this is probably one of the many secrets to long-term happiness. Ignorance is bliss, as they say
mhz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly, that is the worst platfom to look for anything. It’s mostly just a bunch of freaks seeking validation.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
39% use some form of the BBC compared to 28% using TikTok.
The study found that for children aged 12-15, TikTok is now the most used single source of news across all platforms at 28%, followed by YouTube and Instagram at 25% each. However, the BBC still has the highest reach of any news organisation among this age group when all its news outlets – across BBC iPlayer, radio stations, websites and TV channels – are counted, at 39%.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s something of a relief, but 28% is still more than enough to be concerning.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only if it’s their only source of news, and even this clickbait article doesn’t attempt to claim that.
What’s more likely is social media is the first place they hear of something, then they go to an actual news organization for details.
Which is ironic because so many (presumably) adults in this thread just read a headline on social media and then believed it instead of taking two seconds to read the article that’s a click away.
kapx132@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When thousands of 1-3 minute videos are being presented every hour of scrolling it is especailly hard to fact check information.
hardypart@feddit.de 1 year ago
My kids are 3 and 4. I have no idea if TikTok is still relevant when they’re 14, but if not I’m sure there will be something else equally suspicious and toxic like TikTok is now. I hope I can teach them how to look at this stuff with its self esteem crushing and political aspects.
ilovesatan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you expect 12-15 year olds to read the newspaper? Chances are you get your own news from social media. I don’t give a single fuck if a 13 year old even keeps up with the news. In fact, I’d prefer they didn’t.
RyanHeffronPhoto@kbin.social 1 year ago
What were the most popular news sources for that demo in the past? Facebook? MySpace? Sunday morning cartoons? When has that demographic ever had a 'most popular news source'?
Also! The very first graph actually shows the BBC rated 10% higher than tiktok, but that's not click bait enough, so they separated the BBC into subcategories so they could say tiktok was highest 🤦♂️
xc2215x@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Had a feeling.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You should read the article then.
Because the headline and your feeling are wrong.
EddieTee77@lemdro.id 1 year ago
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
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s nothing new.
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.
Boinketh@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m so sick of clickbait.
ilovesatan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You realize that Lemmy is social media right?
Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lemmy is a way of life
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
Much harder to manipulate a decentralized system and inject propaganda and misinformation than it is a centralized one with ties to the local government.
TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And adults get their news from Facebook.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I view TT as a platform, not a source as a whole. There are absolutely great sources of news on TT. And honestly, I’d rather have one good quality source that can get me a daily rundown of headlines in a 3 minute or less video than spend hours watching headlines like you would on a 24 hour news channel.
m0nka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
yes, same. I am way north of being teenager, but after reddit crapped out, my social media usage is like 80% tiktok and the rest lemmy.
Also have lost any trust i had left in the BBC, with their targeted hate campaigns against minorities and constant right wing grift. So i rather follow few serious creators on TikTok than any professional journalist from the mainstream British press.
flipht@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sinclair media is equally disturbing, but very few people question the reach it has into American homes.
Not to mention the consolidation of the rest of the news landscape.
There's several levels of trust here. I don't trust TikTok to serve me anything critical of China, and I know they tend to downshift certain lifestyle creators. But I trust TikTok to give me better on the ground information about a current/emergent event than I do our American corporate media companies, who regularly black out certain topics with near impunity.
audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I worked for a TV station that got bought by Sinclair. I will say this repeatedly and with my whole chest:
Fuck Sinclair. Easily the worst employer I’ve ever had. They are the scummiest of the scummiest media companies. I can accept putting profit over everything, that’s capitalism. They seemed to go out of their way to do things in the least moral way, even if it cost them money. Fuck them. They are the modern face of evil in America.
lasagna@programming.dev 1 year ago
People have been eating shit from sources like the Sun UK tabloid for decades. I don’t think tiktok is stellar and I think governments should enforce local governance on the platform (i.e. local servers and executives). But is it a new terrifying thing?