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Salon
Jen Lyons

The TikTok time bomb

Lady on smartphone in bed Getty Images/Sergey Mironov
Adapted from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2022, edited by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff.

We've all seen them: the teenagers and young adults doing synchronized dancing in a grocery store, park, mall, or coffee shop. You may have heard them duetting sea-shanties, or maybe you were told about the crowdsourced musical based off of the 2007 Pixar movie "Ratatouille." All of these terribly essential activities have one thing, or specifically one app, in common: TikTok, where apparently anyone can cook!

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