The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

The ultimate weapon of mass distraction

      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        The only politics I learned on Tiktok was left leaning capitalism and basic socialist ideas.

        If that’s radical then Lemmy is worse.

            • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              Incredible right wing MAGA Russia brainwashing diatribe. Honestly. You watch one video and the algorithm has you. All I get is fake news pressed as fact and the comment sections are atrocious. Oh and flat earth videos. I wish I could get some left wing stuff, it would make me a lot happier. I can see how people would fall in to a pit of despair and believe everything they see on TikTok.

              I’ve heard “kids these days” don’t even google stuff any more, just search it on TikTok and have something explain it to them, wether it’s true or false.

              • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                9 months ago

                Part of me wants to investigate, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to mess up my algorithm. I wonder if I can have a second account somehow.

        • RedFox@infosec.pubEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Ha! I feel like there isn’t anyone who isn’t considered a fascist on Lemmy 😉

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
      26·
      9 months ago

      You ever read 1984? You remember the bit about newspeak? Well go have a conversation with a zoomer sometime and pay attention to the word choice they use for controversial subjects like suicide and murder (self/other unalive), depression (big sad), pornography (corn), neurodivergence (neurospicy), etc.

      I’m not saying TikTok is solely to blame, but content recommendation algorithms are definitely warping the language people use. Almost all of these genZ slang terms originated as weasel words to talk about these touchy subjects without getting deplatformed by an algorithm designed to keep things advertiser-friendly

      • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        “Every new word the kids use is literally 1984” - an idiots guide to linguistics.

        The words you mentioned were made to appease the extremely sensitive sensibilities of advertisers, not really the effect of a government conspiracy.

      • LinkOpensChest.wavEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        This is nothing new. This is just “new generation bad” with a side order of anti-woke.

        Perhaps you’re not old enough to recall movies edited for TV (e.g., “stranger in the alps”) or the moral panic if someone saw a nipple.

        I talk to Gen Z people, and they communicate just fine. They’re perfectly capable of discerning reality from Tik Tok.