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WSJ Tech News Briefing

How TikTok Serves War Videos to Some of Its Youngest Users

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

More younger people are getting their news from TikTok. For information about conflicts like the Israel-Hamas war, some of the videos that the app’s algorithm serves users can be intense, polarizing or hard to verify. The Wall Street Journal recently conducted an experiment to see what kinds of war videos were served to accounts registered as 13-year-old users on the platform. WSJ technology reporter Sam Schechner joins host Alex Ossola to share more about the experiment, and what it means for the experiences of some of TikTok’s youngest users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.0

Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, December 22nd. I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal. On today's show, as AI becomes a bigger part of our lives, it's going to put new energy

0:44.8

demand on the data centers that are doing the processing work.

0:48.3

And by some estimates, it's going to need more and more power as the models get even bigger. Where will that energy come from and

0:55.2

will the demand just keep rising? W.S.J. Technology columnist Christopher Mims joins us to

1:00.7

discuss. And then research shows that many young people increasingly

1:05.2

get their news from Tik-Toc and this can include some of the platform's youngest

1:09.2

users who can view footage of the Israel Hamas war on the app.

1:13.4

The Wall Street Journal conducted an experiment

1:15.3

to see what kinds of videos reserved to accounts

1:17.5

registered as 13-year-old users.

1:20.2

We'll hear about that and what it tells us

1:22.0

about the experiences some young people are having on the app

1:24.9

from W.S.J. Technology reporter Sam Scheckner.

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