TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age
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www.stgeorgeutah.com— FEATURE (THE CONVERSATION) — The U.S. government moved closer to banning the video social media app TikTok on Apr. 23 after the Senate approved a $95 billion foreign aid bill. The bill includes a provision to force ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, to either sell its American holdings to a U.S. company or […]
Fast Company—Banning TikTok just puts a Band-Aid over social media’s problems. When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to challenge the law in court. If the law stands and the company fails to sell the app, TikTok will be blocked from any U.S. app store or web-hosting service. This would affect TikTok’s more than 170...
Washington Examiner—Social media’s collective action problem. A mostly forgotten footnote in the development of modern transportation is that early railroad passengers were often locked into their carriages. In retrospect, it seems obvious that bolting people into combustible and accident-prone vehicles was a bad idea, but the railroad is a useful reminder that humans are not always good at anticipating the effects […]
Digiday—Publishers not ready to change social media strategies as TikTok ban looms. Execs at Bustle Digital Group, Gallery Media Group and The Washington Post don’t have plans to change their audience development strategies on social media or abandon TikTok as a result of the impending ban.