AE 1182 - The Goss: Why Won't Gen Z Pick Up the Phone
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TikTok's Algorithm Is Like Facebook's but on Steroids
A journalist was doing some research into it because TikTok's algorithm is like Facebook's but on steroids with showing what Fontana shows you. He found out that TikTok has this system where you give certain little emojis which translate as money and that it's training people under the age of 18 to do things on screen on live chats to get money. And so TikTok is pretty much aware that they have an algorithm that is training people to effectively exploit young children sexually on their platform. Knowingly. Well, Instagram is a good example of one that exploits young women who are perfectly happy to put photographs of their mum. Which is not one of the things that they're exploiting. Yeah
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