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From: S. maltophilia8/2/2025 11:00:24 PM
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This Is the News From TikTok
When young adults use the social-media outlet to keep up with current events, what kind of information are they getting?

When he learned one night this summer that the United States had bombed Iran, the content creator Aaron Parnas [that Parnas family] responded right away, showing what’s bad and what’s good about using TikTok for news. Shortly after 7:46 p.m. ET on June 21, he saw Donald Trump’s Truth Social post announcing the air strikes. At 7:52, according to a time stamp, Parnas uploaded to TikTok a minute-long video in which he looked into the camera; read out the president’s post, which identified the suspected nuclear sites that the U.S. had targeted; and added a note of skepticism about whether Iran would heed Trump’s call for peace. As traditional media outlets revealed more details that night, Parnas summarized their findings in nine more reports, some of which he recorded from a car.

Parnas wasn’t adding elaborate detail or original reporting. What he had to offer was speed—plus a deep understanding of how to reach people on.....

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