{"id":9057,"date":"2023-02-23T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/23\/what-happens-if-teens-get-their-news-from-tiktok-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T09:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T08:37:54","slug":"what-happens-if-teens-get-their-news-from-tiktok-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/23\/what-happens-if-teens-get-their-news-from-tiktok-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if teens get their news from TikTok? | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algorithm-based sources lead to more polarised and conflicting views in society, as people are exposed to a less diverse diet of current affairs, writes <strong>Ollie Davies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your editorial on disinformation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/feb\/17\/the-guardian-view-on-disinformation-online-a-21st-century-growth-industry\" title=\"\">17 February<\/a>) highlights a great challenge, but of arguably greater importance are the sources of news young people use. In <a href=\"https:\/\/reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk\/digital-news-report\/2022\/dnr-executive-summary\" title=\"\">a 2022 study<\/a>, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford provided quantitative evidence on the growth of social media as a news source for 18- to 24-year-olds. TikTok as a source had increased fivefold between 2020 and 2022, and YouTube stabilised its share of young readers in Asia, the fastest growing populace in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with Facebook and Twitter, these sources supply 66% of young people their main news source, and all rely on algorithms. To increase views, clicks and advertising revenues, they show stories that viewers want to see \u2013 and slant viewpoints further. The result? Increasingly polarised and conflicting views in society, as people are exposed to a less diverse diet of actual current affairs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/feb\/22\/what-happens-if-teens-get-their-news-from-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a601b9bcef0bfc63ec99128fc0bdc005c493b81c\/0_304_5520_3312\/master\/5520.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=22e021777bd71c8414f66c925bda35c8\" title=\"What happens if teens get their news from TikTok? | Letter\" \/>Algorithm-based sources lead to more polarised and conflicting views in society, as people are exposed to a less diverse diet of current affairs, writes Ollie Davies<br \/>\nYour editorial on disinformation (17 February) highlights a great challenge, but of arguably greater importance are the sources of news young people use. In a 2022 study, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford provided quantitative evidence on the growth of social media as a news source for 18- to 24-year-olds. TikTok as a source had increased fivefold between 2020 and 2022, and YouTube stabilised its share of young readers in Asia, the fastest growing populace in the world.<br \/>\nCombined with Facebook and Twitter, these sources supply 66% of young people their main news source, and all rely on algorithms. To increase views, clicks and advertising revenues, they show stories that viewers want to see \u2013 and slant viewpoints further. The result? Increasingly polarised and conflicting views in society, as people are exposed to a less diverse diet of actual current affairs. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algorithm-based sources lead to more polarised and conflicting views in society, as people are exposed to a less diverse diet of current affairs, writes Ollie Davies Your editorial on disinformation (17 February) highlights a great challenge, but of arguably greater importance are the sources of news young people use. In a 2022 study, the Reuters &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/23\/what-happens-if-teens-get-their-news-from-tiktok-letter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What happens if teens get their news from TikTok? | Letter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}