So I am ashamed to say I use tiktok more than I had intended when downloading the app. The alogirthy is really good, and if that stuff isn’t your cup of tea you will literally have to create a new sub account to dig yourself out of the algorithm trench your in.

But with all that being said, Tiktok is a good source for finding loose threads to pull on. Some rando will go off on some new thing, maybe a part of an obscure world news event, your congress critter doing something fucky the other day that national news ignored, etc. You cannot take these videos as truth, but they certainly give you everything you need to know to Google and find the reputable sources yourself.

This is the actual reason I think the US wants to ban tiktok. Government corruption is highlighted with a floodlight and passed around to anyone interested in almost real time. It’s crazy what I see on tiktok, that eventually becomes AP news or a post on Lemmy or both.