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On that very particular point she's not wrong. The collapse of trustworthy news sources and the rise of social media is bad for getting the truth out.
I'd like to get to where we can verify and validate citizen reporting consistently.
Definitely, that's why I'd be in favour of banning TikTok and requiring all social media platforms to have stronger fact checking mechanism.
Though, the only real solution is to improve the cognitive skills of the population starting when they're children.
Ironically X's community notes have been pretty good at fact checking posts.
Not sure about bans in general, but short-form video on infinite scroll is 100% brain rot.
The problem with TikTok is that it clearly pushes Chinese narratives.
See the 2024 Romanian election or this: https://www.dw.com/en/far-right-afd-appears-as-strongest-german-party-on-tiktok/a-69264717