As the Biden administration considers banning TikTok, some young activists say the move could leave a lasting political mark on an entire generation, depressing turnout, increasing apathy, and shaping their view of the role of the federal government.
showed that while 49% of all Americans support banning TikTok, 63% of 18-to-34 year-olds oppose the ban.
Kurt Bardella, a Republican-turned-Democratic strategist who also works with entertainers, just returned from a country music industry convention in Nashville where he was surprised to find that even stars who broke through on TikTok were unaware of its potentially imminent demise. On the other side of the issue, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he worries about China’s ability to use TikTok “for content manipulation or propaganda,” particularly with young people, noting that Chinese children are exposed to entirely different types of content on the app than Americans.
Since then, the app has exploded in popularity and become “undeniably the go-to place for young people today” and the meeting place for an unusually cohesive generational community. Literat is unsure that GenZ TikTok users will migrate en masse to another platform, given their enmeshment in the platform and its vaunted algorithm that, unlike Facebook or Instagram’s, spotlights content from unknown creators that can turn students into stars overnight.
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