How TikTok Serves War Videos to Some of Its Youngest Users
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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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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