'Soft fakes' –  back from the dead restofworld.org/2024/dead-rela…

#Readinglist Visual propaganda in chinese central and local news agencies: a douyin case study nature.com/articles/s4159…

“TikTok is not magic; it is not the digital equivalent of a nuclear bomb controlled by one nation at the risk of another,” Kyle Chayka writes. “If we want to understand its real risks, we would do better to disentangle the motives behind the U.S. ban.” nyer.cm/n8daB3R

Europe is nowhere close to banning TikTok politico.eu/article/us-sty…

MAGA Inc., the Donald Trump-aligned Super PAC, joined TikTok on Wednesday, marking the first group affiliated with Trump to do so semafor.com/article/05/08/…

Thanks Nathalie Van Raemdonck @[email protected]

For researchers residing in regions with access to the TikTok Research API, here is a great review of the TikTok Research API pros and cons by Laura Edelson cybersecurityfordemocracy.org/getting-to-kno…

contingency plans

What usually happens is that meme makers and thinkers fall back on two authors: Dawkins (1976) and Shifman (2014). How can memes be defined beyond their work in a way that is better suited to our current time? Find out on May, 17

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Bachelor thesis: Undergraduate women (N=193) between the ages of 18-24 completed measures of TikTok use and eating pathology. We did not detect an effect of #WIED exposure on increased disordered eating in the current sample.

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14-29 vs 18-29

Bottom up content creation.

'The practice of ideological exclusion gradually came to be regarded as irreconcileable with the core values of an open society.'

Foreign propaganda is everywhere--newsflash, everyone! (By the way is RT gone from all U.S. cable networks?) 26/

In an interview a week or so ago I said that I expected to be listening to TikTok's court case against the US government, much as I did four years ago... and today they filed their petition to prevent a ban in the US sf16-va.tiktokcdn.com/obj/eden-va2/h…

Bon Appetit Robot

TikTok AfD-Dashboard von polisphere canva.com/design/DAGDQF1…