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‘For You’: What to know about news on TikTok

By Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Associate Professor of Communication Technology, University of Connecticut

Last time you scrolled the “For You” page on TikTok, did you get a video about current events? Politics? Breaking news?

If you’re one of the 63% of teens or 33% of adults in the U.S. who uses TikTok, you probably have. But where did it come from? Who created it? And should you believe what it told you?

As a communication researcher who has…

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