A bomb hitting Kyiv, the model Kendall Jenner cutting a cucumber, Liz Truss’s resignation speech, how to cook rice, and mashed potato being thrown at a Monet. This is what my TikTok feed looked like the day after Rishi Sunak became our new prime minister. It’s a chaotic mishmash of content where disturbing news clips flash up after celebrity gossip videos.
It’s easy to dismiss TikTok as a social media platform where teenagers perform synchronised dance routines or lip-sync to pop music, but the app has become the main news source for many of its one billion monthly active users – most of them members of Generation Z, like me. A quarter of adults in the US under 30 get their news from TikTok, according
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