TikTok Pushing ‘Dumbed Down’ Content to Western Teens Warns Peer

TikTok Pushing ‘Dumbed Down’ Content to Western Teens Warns Peer
The TikTok startup page is displayed on an iPhone in Ottawa on Feb. 27, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Patricia Devlin
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TikTok is feeding Western teens “dumbed down” content while providing Chinese youth with educational and motivational videos, the president of the British Chambers of Commerce has claimed.

Baroness Martha Lane Fox—a former Twitter board member—said the video sharing app was “eroding ambition and motivation” by bombarding Western young people with addictive content.

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