Content creators worry about miseducation in a world without TikTok

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LOS ANGELES — It was December 2020 during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic when 'Ms James', a public school teacher in a small rural Southern town, realised that her virtual students were not watching the grammar lessons she assigned them. That is, until she posted them on TikTok.

Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates outside the US Capitol following a press conference by TikTok creators to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act," pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, March 12, 2024.

"Within six months, I had a million and a half," added the teacher of fifteen years, who asked not to use her full name for privacy.The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill last week that will give TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app, or face a ban.

From videos on subject-verb agreement to vocabulary, James believes that her legacy is to help the world through education and fears a ban would be detrimental." "It's more toward what kind of personal information are people voluntarily giving up to an entity that does not have the same standards for privacy that we do. That's the big issue with TikTok," she added.

 

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