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Comment by vFunct

2 months ago

The source is Dan Mccllelan, not TikTok. TikTok didn’t publish this, Dan did. TikTok is the medium, not the author.

Otherwise it’s like complaining about citing “words printed on paper” when citing a book or journal.

It's just an unsuitable, attention-zapping, toxic format for sharing information. It would be best to link to an article that can convey the full message. not a 15 second jolt which is what TT is all about.

  • The opposite. It would be unsuitable to link to a long-form article when a 15 second TikTok video would convey the relevant information just fine.

    What exactly was incorrect about Dans video? (He’s great BTW)

    These new information medium was invented for a reason, in particular, the economic efficiency of conveying information.

    I would suggest people learn to use them.

  • If you prefer, he does a long form podcast called Data Over Dogma that is skeptical and informative. He uses TikTok because there are loads of people on the platform spewing misinformation about the Bible. He's meeting people where they are with empirical information