alt Hacker NewsYou’d be surprised how many people don’t give a shit about TikTok. It’s just another blip in history like Facebook, Instagram, Vine, MySpace and others before them.
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gzread • yesterday at 12:16 PM
All of those were extremely influential and half of them had enough power to select a president.
Regarding "why care." It's where a shockingly large portion of voters and adults get their "news."
• 43% of US 18-29 year olds regularly get news on TikTok
• Half of US adults get news on TikTok, 1 in 5 US "regularly" do so
• This is 2 points less than Twitter and two points more than Facebook
Data from Pew Research (Sep 2025): https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-am...