Just pointing this out. In China, if you’re a minor, TikTok only shows science based videos that are more geared towards educating. In the US the algorithm is designed to show you the most viral and interacted with videos. In a separate study, a survey showed that when kids in China are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they say things like astronaut, engineer, doctors, etc. but if you ask kids in the US the same question, they say “influencer.”
I work with a lot of student from all around the world bro, trust me they find their way around it in there counties where the internet is so heavily policed. Or force fed.
My first thought is the freedoms of expression/speech as well as the press enshrined in the US Constitution. Perhaps that is why almost all social media platforms are blocked in China.
Just one remark on your thoughts. Show me where it says in the constitution that freedom of speech applies to a space that isn’t (owned by the) public.
Except those companies dont have an interest in using said power to weaken a nation in order for an easy acquisition like communist China. They DO have other self interests though that is quite threatening, but Tik Tok is scary good at dumbing the general population, especially Gen Z.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylordit is completely a good argument... C'mon man. You think we should allow a government that is causing multiple gen*cides, doesn't allow it's people to use any internet app/site that allows them to speak to the outside world, and is harvesting organs to sell, to just influence us freely? Please. Educate yourself. You should have decades ago, but it's never too late.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord it actually is a very good argument.. how can we trust to use something that their communist regime doesn't even allow its own citizens?
Right? Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress the White House was essentially bullying over the whole covid19 stuff and that was basically instructed to expertise censorship. Isn’t censorship a form of influence?
They aren't saying they are using Chinese people to do it, they are using American influncers and profiles to influence people. Media literacy really isn't your strong suit is it.
If everyone has a media addiction it's not really an illness is it? Pretty sure that's the stage government is in right now as they check their their phones
Incorrect. You can find information of the dark history of the U.S on social media including UA-cam. You won’t find negative information about the Chinese government on TickTok.
This is just some BS people are doing during an election year to give themselves bullet points to talk about when they themselves run for office (e.g. running for district representative or senatorial/gubernatorial election).
Exactly. Need to pay people to study this when it’s been obvious and in our face from its inception. Education system is behind the times and very confused
There's a big difference if you're educated. Guess what the #1 cause of death is for men under 40? Something that china makes. WW - 3 may be soon, and here we are allowing them to influence us and ship dr*gs into our country every minute...
Why what are you afraid of? I remember in the 80s my mother wouldn't allow my to watch movies, because I was to young to be subjected to it. Now all you lazy shtheels, want the government to raise your children for you.
One wants your money and the other wants your country and quality of living to collapse. I agree that it needs to be independently regulated no matter what and I also think that there is a clear difference between an American billionaire and an adversarial foreign government.
@@ChaoticGoodThings In reality it's the USA that wants to dictate human rights to China, while American billionaires take advantage of cheap labor. See the double edged sword on the mantle?
So let’s study it then, huh? I have roughly 8 hours a day of tik tok exposure, and I’ve developed unrelenting mental illness. If it means my health is on the line… oh wait? No one cares.
The news media is just upset that breaking news stories always go to social media first. They don't like the fact that news stations are slowly becoming irrelevant. The death of actual good journalism doesn't help either.
The only reason that’s predominantly true is because social media doesn’t have the responsibility to check the accuracy of sources before posting. And even then, the media still gets it wrong sometimes. What does that say about social media? Fill in that blank anyway you like.
I watched tic tok for a while and i turned it off,did not like the stuff.too violent, horrible content for animal abuse,just terrible what they put out,causing strife. It was also very hard to get rid of the app. My vote is to ban tik tok.
this is not why they want it banned....people are making money own their own there and the gov dont like it. ive never seen any influence on my feeds. They dont want people to have online businesses
The fact that yall wasted tax payer dollars to do a study on this, when we've been saying this for years, but ppl called us consoiracy theorists says a lot
It started with Vine. At first it was just funny/wholesome clips, but then people got hooked on it, especially kids/teens. It's now immediate, endless 'satisfaction'. If they have a constant stream of dopamine, they're going to keep coming back. TT also has shops for people to buy from that overlay on videos and are tagged in links like on youtube. It's a gluttonous app. You can't escape it, much like product placement in movies and shows (i.e. coke/pepsi cans conveniently facing the camera). If they see whatever TT celebrity use it, they immediately buy it.
Circumstantial or not, everything in China is heavily "regulated" by the Chinese government. So, do you think the Chinese government is treating Tiktok differently? Not a chance. Google refused to let the Chinese government touch its data. This is why US-based UA-cam or Facebook are forbidden in China. The question should be why we still have this double standard where a China-based Tiktok app can operate in North America freely while a foreign app like Google Map or UA-cam can't operate in China without government oversight.
The government needs some control you just can't say zero. What about this drug problem we have with thr cartel? You think the government should just be like " let them buy all the drugs they want". A certain amount of intervention is needed and it should be limited but zero is not reasonable.
Everything in China is heavily "regulated" by the Chinese government. So, do you think the Chinese government is treating Tiktok differently? Not a chance. Google refused to let the Chinese government touch its data. This is why US-based UA-cam or Facebook are forbidden in China. The question should be why we still have this double standard where a China-based Tiktok app can operate in North America freely while apps like GoogleMap or UA-cam can't operate in China without government oversight.
@@Love_N_Let_LiveWe're not at literal war with them. They're still in many ways an ally to us and it'll always be that way. When tensions were rising a bit, NOBODY wanted it to be that way and were calling for peace between the U.S. and China. In any case, other countries are always influenced by other countries be it their history, politics or what have you. The line is very blurry when you talk about influence, most of the time the concern is someone betraying their own country. Yeah, brainwashing is a thing and social media does it all of the time. We engage in it, other countries engage in it to prop up the influence of our countries. Whatever topic is warranted in either being for or against TikTok in how the site is ran, this is a stretch. People have really complicated views of the world and there's stuff you can find on UA-cam as well as elsewhere that someone can call Chinese propaganda, U.S. propaganda or otherwise even if just a standard political video, or even books. Its in part why the U.S. still allowed printing of controversial material in the past and up till now, it's Freedom of Speech and even freedom of thought. With things like this I'll hold the view that whether you agree, disagree, become influenced or not by, that shouldn't be something that's up to the government. There's so many different types of things on TikTok especially on topics where people can freely express their views, many times people don't agree with their own government on certain things. The line is just too blurry for me to be okay with positions like this. You're not just talking about other countries on TikTok influencing others (which happens again, on every social media platform) you're talking about how social media is in general. Regulations and such is a different topic for social media. Though I'm not comfortable with my government taking positions like this when it's too close to being a Freedom of Speech issue.
Discord is also controlled by the Chinese government by the way. Lol I do not have TikTok on my phone. But that’s more because it seems to be dominated by seeking Idiocracy.
I don't think that's a good idea. I don't want them to band TikTok because people will be mad at it if TikTok gets banned on UA-cam Instagram, Facebook what the big idea it's it's not a good idea for China doing this to people like I don't want them to bandit, but it's not them, decide it's not you to get to decide on it. They should ban or not so stop demanding them to bandit. OK they're not gonna ban stuff like Instagram and stuff. It's not your choice. People let the government choose. It's not your decision to choose. will get banned or rather it will not we'll just have to see and find out, but not not it's not. It's not your decision. OK so stay out of it.
I don't think they're gonna ban it, but you do not make the choice of rather they band TikTok for good or rather they keep it. It's not your decision people let the government choose rather if they wanna keep TikTok or get rid of it not your decision let them choose what they can do with TikTok. OK not your decision people so stay out of it
@@JupiterMoon777 They, being the US government already censored facts on Facebook, UA-cam, Yahoo, Twitter about covid jab science. They want to ban this because they don't bend to our government
At least you can see through it. Twitter and Facebook are infinitely worse in terms of content moderation but owned by Americans so its a-okay. Twitter is probably the most egregious example because the algorithm boosts engagement on topics that create social divide like racism, politics, etc
Just pointing this out. In China, if you’re a minor, TikTok only shows science based videos that are more geared towards educating. In the US the algorithm is designed to show you the most viral and interacted with videos. In a separate study, a survey showed that when kids in China are asked what they want to be when they grow up, they say things like astronaut, engineer, doctors, etc. but if you ask kids in the US the same question, they say “influencer.”
And what are all the other social media platforms doing? Welcome to capitalism.
What study
I work with a lot of student from all around the world bro, trust me they find their way around it in there counties where the internet is so heavily policed. Or force fed.
Cant fix stupid!
Their also selling Mexicans hella fetynal
Never understood the TikTok obsession. Continuing to stay off it
I’m with ya
My first thought is the freedoms of expression/speech as well as the press enshrined in the US Constitution. Perhaps that is why almost all social media platforms are blocked in China.
Just one remark on your thoughts. Show me where it says in the constitution that freedom of speech applies to a space that isn’t (owned by the) public.
It's actually a social media app designed for clocks.
Only in the West
New studies: Face Book and Google have been doing this for decades now.
Except those companies dont have an interest in using said power to weaken a nation in order for an easy acquisition like communist China. They DO have other self interests though that is quite threatening, but Tik Tok is scary good at dumbing the general population, especially Gen Z.
Lollll... right 😂
Why do we use TikTok here in the states when Chinese government don’t allow their citizens don’t. That’s insanity
It's china bro they don't allow a lot of stuff that's not a good argument.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylordit is completely a good argument... C'mon man. You think we should allow a government that is causing multiple gen*cides, doesn't allow it's people to use any internet app/site that allows them to speak to the outside world, and is harvesting organs to sell, to just influence us freely?
Please. Educate yourself. You should have decades ago, but it's never too late.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord it actually is a very good argument.. how can we trust to use something that their communist regime doesn't even allow its own citizens?
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylordif the producers don’t consume their own products. There is a concern.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord You're dumb. That is the best argument ever.
So other social media’s don’t do this? Everything online has some sort of influence behind it.
Wrong, the gov monitors this to keep us safe
Harris administration censored science of COVID jab and the side effects. Save democracy, stop Harris
Right? Mark Zuckerberg just told Congress the White House was essentially bullying over the whole covid19 stuff and that was basically instructed to expertise censorship. Isn’t censorship a form of influence?
Influence, yes. Whether it’s benign or not is a whole other matter.
This is influence of political interstate matter.
Oh really! You don’t say!
I don't see any of this stuff they are talking about on my TikTok account. I see recipes, people doing trends, etc. Mostly Americans.
They aren't saying they are using Chinese people to do it, they are using American influncers and profiles to influence people. Media literacy really isn't your strong suit is it.
You dont need to be looking at trends or cooking to you need to be getting strong mind body and soul ur losing
Did you see antiblack racist David Murga on there ?
Your government wants you to hate China. They're upset it's not working.
@@teresaesquivel2040 Depends on what kind of cooking she's doing. You surely must know that your body needs to eat well to be strong.
I am a filipino, and I can say that tiktok has ruined people's way of thinking here in the Philippines. It made people dumber in all ways....
TikTok isn't different from X or Facebook in that respect, just the people using it is different
If everyone has a media addiction it's not really an illness is it? Pretty sure that's the stage government is in right now as they check their their phones
except those are after your wallet, not a foreign government trying to spread propaganda try to destabilize the US.
Do they even teach English in American schools anymore. its are not is Einstein.
Wrong. Their algorithm bakes in pro-CCP propaganda.
It’s owned by the Chinese. It’s not the same as X and Facebook
All media are doing the same ... all coming from america are doing the same. You are all hypocrats.
Incorrect. You can find information of the dark history of the U.S on social media including UA-cam. You won’t find negative information about the Chinese government on TickTok.
Oh but when meta and google do it it’s completely ok
Kind of reminds me of what Twitter-X, Facebook, and Google, also does for anyone with money to spend.
And for the Harris Administration censorship team
This entire situation is so unnecessary… I refuse to believe with everything going on in the world THIS is a focal matter. Let it go.
This is just some BS people are doing during an election year to give themselves bullet points to talk about when they themselves run for office (e.g. running for district representative or senatorial/gubernatorial election).
You needed a "study" to figure this out?!?! HOW MUCH DID THIS "STUDY" COST!?!?!
Exactly. Need to pay people to study this when it’s been obvious and in our face from its inception. Education system is behind the times and very confused
OH you don’t say. This has been common knowledge since the start of that app and anyone who thinks otherwise are successes to the enemy.
AND ALL THE STUPID PEOPLE USING TIKTOK. WHY? TSK TSK. BOYCOTT TIKTOK AND FACEBOOK.
They won't even remove clips that are obviously fake AI OR MANIPULATED
Chinese government or an American billionaire. What's the difference?? It needs to be independently regulated no matter who owns it.
There's a big difference if you're educated. Guess what the #1 cause of death is for men under 40? Something that china makes.
WW - 3 may be soon, and here we are allowing them to influence us and ship dr*gs into our country every minute...
Why what are you afraid of? I remember in the 80s my mother wouldn't allow my to watch movies, because I was to young to be subjected to it. Now all you lazy shtheels, want the government to raise your children for you.
exactly!!
One wants your money and the other wants your country and quality of living to collapse. I agree that it needs to be independently regulated no matter what and I also think that there is a clear difference between an American billionaire and an adversarial foreign government.
@@ChaoticGoodThings In reality it's the USA that wants to dictate human rights to China, while American billionaires take advantage of cheap labor. See the double edged sword on the mantle?
In India we don't use tik tok.our government has already deleted every Chinese apps 😂😂😂
Very smart! You have good leadership.
You're in a cesspool of a country.
You’re government also allows mass grape 🤦🏿♂️
@@adamhuffman3354 LMAOO China is the least of India's worries. Judging from what's been going on in India lately, their leadership is worth much.
Delete Chinese app import department what a great idea
I refuse to download TikTok just because it’s Chinese ccp backed
Guess who said that before and now has it.
Then you need to refuse 75% of the products you use and consume on a daily basis, because everything is made in China.
So is your phone
Own a smartphone? Then it’s too late #MadeInChina
Well I feel sorry for you lol. Such a petulant excuse. Ur missing out on good information where you wouldn't get anywhere els.
This has been going on too long. They should already have been shut down.
Just like Merideth Spriggs
@Dingus99268 And? get one not made there, there are pleny made elsewhere
What about UA-cam?
new propaganda
I’ve been saying this for years now
why is this even a surprise
Ban it !!!
OLD news...🙄🤦🏼
This has been said for years
So let’s study it then, huh? I have roughly 8 hours a day of tik tok exposure, and I’ve developed unrelenting mental illness. If it means my health is on the line… oh wait? No one cares.
WTF
No one cares, I do.
Everyone I know who uses TikTok a lot is struggling in life
And the Chinese bots show up right on cue.
God cares
Get back on track. Give your life to Christ. He careth for you. ❤
But it not a problem when facebook and google does it. Please stop with your hypocrisy.
This should be obvious
Of course they do.
Yep. Some of it says to keel yourself. It’s a dangerous app.
A world of smartphones and stupid people.
Yep
Duh! 🙄
Duuhh, you don't need a stupid study for that, theirs is mostly learning, ours is stupid dances and trends😂
And right on cue, the Chinese bots show up to cast doubt on the story.
Ya think. Bots have already been proven.
The news media is just upset that breaking news stories always go to social media first. They don't like the fact that news stations are slowly becoming irrelevant. The death of actual good journalism doesn't help either.
The only reason that’s predominantly true is because social media doesn’t have the responsibility to check the accuracy of sources before posting. And even then, the media still gets it wrong sometimes. What does that say about social media? Fill in that blank anyway you like.
Lmfao if you get your news from til tok you might be an npc 😂😂😂😂
Movie industry fading television fading cartoon toys are all fading because the youth are to busy doom scrolling like zombies
I watched tic tok for a while and i turned it off,did not like the stuff.too violent, horrible content for animal abuse,just terrible what they put out,causing strife. It was also very hard to get rid of the app. My vote is to ban tik tok.
this is not why they want it banned....people are making money own their own there and the gov dont like it. ive never seen any influence on my feeds. They dont want people to have online businesses
Trust me the " young American minds " wont be influenced if anything we have to worry about gen X with facebook 😅
Not that it matters a great deal but where are their servers?
So are UA-cam, Google, Facebook and X. It's okay to US and western countries to do so, but not China :D
This has been a thing for years btw 😂 exactly why I never got it
Duh?
Their people aren’t allowed to use our social media.
Bruh 💀 the mainstream media is always so late to the conversation
You people just figured this out⁉️🤣
Never got any Chinese propaganda on my feed
It's how you get censored and what gets censored.
Yep
Well if they weren’t before they are now 😂
Anyone who believes differently is kidding themselves
China (through TikTok) is Google, Amazon, Facebook, Fox, Control Media Group, and Capital Funding.
Good reporting, thank you
"COULD BE"
Total BS excuse to ban Tik Tok. If that's the case, then ban UA-cam as well
AIPAC is a massive party behind the tiktok ban…
The fact that yall wasted tax payer dollars to do a study on this, when we've been saying this for years, but ppl called us consoiracy theorists says a lot
Conspiracy nutters have a very poor track record of being correct. Studies and research are much preferred.
I thought we knew this already...
Well,meta sells data to tiktok.
Really? You think??
Wake up people this is old news
YOUR FYP IS WHAT YOU BUILT of IT, if you don’t search it you won’t see it . I’ve never seen anything
Chinese in 3 yrs on my FYP.
This has been going on for a long time. I'm pretty sure most everyone has known this too
No really?? China wouldn't do that
Finally , tik tok is lame . How many people have died or hurt themselves by following moronic trends.
The American public is lame as well
duh
That's not new
Yeah ok so tell me why you can start a new account on you tube and within the first week they are pushing hitler ww2 vids on you?
Was a study needed? 😂
Never understood Tiktok. What is so appealing about a website that only allows 5-10 second videos? What do people GET out of it?!
It's conditioning them.
Yeah TT is lame to me
Maybe if you knew what you were talking about, tiktok allows up to 1 hour videos by the way.
It started with Vine. At first it was just funny/wholesome clips, but then people got hooked on it, especially kids/teens. It's now immediate, endless 'satisfaction'. If they have a constant stream of dopamine, they're going to keep coming back. TT also has shops for people to buy from that overlay on videos and are tagged in links like on youtube. It's a gluttonous app. You can't escape it, much like product placement in movies and shows (i.e. coke/pepsi cans conveniently facing the camera). If they see whatever TT celebrity use it, they immediately buy it.
Tha problem is that there are more dumb people than smart people. You get tha government that you work for.
Circumstantial evidence.
100% false.
Circumstantial or not, everything in China is heavily "regulated" by the Chinese government. So, do you think the Chinese government is treating Tiktok differently? Not a chance.
Google refused to let the Chinese government touch its data. This is why US-based UA-cam or Facebook are forbidden in China. The question should be why we still have this double standard where a China-based Tiktok app can operate in North America freely while a foreign app like Google Map or UA-cam can't operate in China without government oversight.
@@Love_N_Let_Live China Bot
@@Love_N_Let_Live china bot
US propaganda on the roll. It's safe and effective manipulation
circumstantial evidence, lol
who is surprised? no one.
Duh.
new study released the sky is blue
Hollywood and the music industry has been poisoning the minds of children and the entire world for years. Tiktok is the least of our worries.😂
Let's be completely real, even with this information being public, us Americans aren't going to do anything about it.
Why use an app from a government that doesn't allow their own citizens to have such freedom of information. Think about it
Americans should have the freedom to decide what they watch and believe. The US government should have no control over the American people.
The government needs some control you just can't say zero. What about this drug problem we have with thr cartel? You think the government should just be like " let them buy all the drugs they want". A certain amount of intervention is needed and it should be limited but zero is not reasonable.
So you want us to just allow a country that is at war with us, to influence us freely? Please educate yourself on what china is doing.
Everything in China is heavily "regulated" by the Chinese government. So, do you think the Chinese government is treating Tiktok differently? Not a chance.
Google refused to let the Chinese government touch its data. This is why US-based UA-cam or Facebook are forbidden in China. The question should be why we still have this double standard where a China-based Tiktok app can operate in North America freely while apps like GoogleMap or UA-cam can't operate in China without government oversight.
@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord The US government can't even control the border. I do not want them to tell me what I can view or believe.
@@Love_N_Let_LiveWe're not at literal war with them. They're still in many ways an ally to us and it'll always be that way. When tensions were rising a bit, NOBODY wanted it to be that way and were calling for peace between the U.S. and China. In any case, other countries are always influenced by other countries be it their history, politics or what have you. The line is very blurry when you talk about influence, most of the time the concern is someone betraying their own country. Yeah, brainwashing is a thing and social media does it all of the time. We engage in it, other countries engage in it to prop up the influence of our countries. Whatever topic is warranted in either being for or against TikTok in how the site is ran, this is a stretch. People have really complicated views of the world and there's stuff you can find on UA-cam as well as elsewhere that someone can call Chinese propaganda, U.S. propaganda or otherwise even if just a standard political video, or even books. Its in part why the U.S. still allowed printing of controversial material in the past and up till now, it's Freedom of Speech and even freedom of thought. With things like this I'll hold the view that whether you agree, disagree, become influenced or not by, that shouldn't be something that's up to the government. There's so many different types of things on TikTok especially on topics where people can freely express their views, many times people don't agree with their own government on certain things. The line is just too blurry for me to be okay with positions like this. You're not just talking about other countries on TikTok influencing others (which happens again, on every social media platform) you're talking about how social media is in general. Regulations and such is a different topic for social media. Though I'm not comfortable with my government taking positions like this when it's too close to being a Freedom of Speech issue.
No… I’m shocked. Shocked! /s
And it isn’t just Americans. It’s meant to influence worldwide people.
Blaming another government for the actions of your own citizens is ridiculous.Why can’t USA Americans be more responsible for their actions?
I refuse to download Tik Tok because .... I'm 40
Discord is also controlled by the Chinese government by the way. Lol I do not have TikTok on my phone. But that’s more because it seems to be dominated by seeking Idiocracy.
Ban it
I don't think that's a good idea. I don't want them to band TikTok because people will be mad at it if TikTok gets banned on UA-cam Instagram, Facebook what the big idea it's it's not a good idea for China doing this to people like I don't want them to bandit, but it's not them, decide it's not you to get to decide on it. They should ban or not so stop demanding them to bandit. OK they're not gonna ban stuff like Instagram and stuff. It's not your choice. People let the government choose. It's not your decision to choose. will get banned or rather it will not we'll just have to see and find out, but not not it's not. It's not your decision. OK so stay out of it.
I don't think they're gonna ban it, but you do not make the choice of rather they band TikTok for good or rather they keep it. It's not your decision people let the government choose rather if they wanna keep TikTok or get rid of it not your decision let them choose what they can do with TikTok. OK not your decision people so stay out of it
You really believe that's why they wanna ban it?
@@sakuralovesasuke236 So says the China Bot
@@JupiterMoon777 They, being the US government already censored facts on Facebook, UA-cam, Yahoo, Twitter about covid jab science. They want to ban this because they don't bend to our government
I cannot believe this App is still alive and going in USA. Remember when Chinese banned UA-cam and made their own version? This situation is all bad
Duh
If you’re just now figuring this out, you’ve got a lot to learn.
“Chinese chips taste better than regular chips”
Fear-Based Propaganda
As someone who’s used TikTok for years, this reeks of US propaganda. I’ve never seen any Chinese propaganda or even anything pro China on the app..
At least you can see through it. Twitter and Facebook are infinitely worse in terms of content moderation but owned by Americans so its a-okay. Twitter is probably the most egregious example because the algorithm boosts engagement on topics that create social divide like racism, politics, etc
We've BEEN SAYING THIS!!!!!
The previous studies had no influence on the government?
its funny how all of Hollywood was making movies with Asians as main characters for a year just before tiktok completely took off..coincidence?
American government loves playing victim when throwing a fit doesn’t get them the results they seek 😂💯
Don't have it glad I don't you can't force anyone to sell though that's bullying
this is like super old news
So what Facebook Google has been doing from last 2 decades
Fork found in kitchen
All social media needs more regulation
Duh. Are you guys new here?
They’re angry because they got caught😂