TikTok’s Algorithm: The Rabbit Hole to Radicalisation and Misinformation?
People have long been aware of the spectre that is data collection. For years, our habits, thoughts and interests have been recorded and regurgitated back to us through increasingly targeted content and ads. It has begun to seem normal. Algorithms that target consumer interests are everywhere - but have we finally reached the tipping point? Jokes about Google’s targeted ads - and their hilari...
It’s Lit: The Subversive Power Of BookTok
If the internet was a city, TikTok is a funhouse of trick mirrors and trap doors. It reflects your interests back to you until you are forced deeper and deeper into its content. A maze of memes, if you will. However, traverse its labyrinthine corridors for long enough, you will come across a quiet corner of this funhouse. It’s gloomily lit, and, in accordance with the dark academia lore from ...