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TikTok is listed on so many of these. Amazing how that platform continues to exist and people actually get their news from there.
There's a lot of really engaging shot-form content on the platform; most people assume it's just a firehose of what you see when you log in anonymously.
It's a poor substitute for a healthy set of reading, but it's also a way people put things happening "now" online. Not unlike choosing your broadcast or print media, the results can be really interesting or really misleading (or both; okay, often both)
Amazing how tiktok is not outright banned in most countries. When I first heard of the platform years ago I thought for sure it would be banned everywhere yet here we are.