TikTok as a news source: readers weigh in on reliability and bias

After a temporary ban on Tik Tok in the U.S. hit overnight, we asked our online readers, do you consider Tik Tok a reliable source of news and information? Here are a few of their responses...

Yes, you oftern find information that you can do your own independent research and develop your own opinion without a narrative pushed to sway one way or the other like on national media cycle. - Nate Carter

Not really. Unless you find the information from the right source. A source that gives info without tons of personal commentary. I must say, the difference with TikTok, and Facebook for instance, is that you are less likely to be banned on there by biased fact checkers to control the information the public gets. Nonetheless, it’s difficult on TikTok or anywhere else, to find a source of news that hasn’t been baptized in biases that those who pass the info to us share. This makes the information and news we get from TikTok no different than what we get from major news outlets. - Stephen Pegues

Information possibly, but definitely not news! - Matthew Duckworth

No, I’m not there for news because I mistrust the news. Now if I want to watch a cat sing, a good fall sequence or funny faces, yes! - Tracy Hoover

I don’t even trust network news! Much less that from China. TikTok is just another “believe it or not” platform. - Terry Waldrop