I’m Not a Fan of TikTok, but We Can’t Blame It for Everything

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  Zeynep Tufekci: My name is Zeynep Tufekci.

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  And I'm a columnist for The New York Times.

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  I'm also a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.

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  So I recently wrote a piece that is somewhat surprising coming from me

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  because I'm a long–time critic of social media.

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  I have written many, many articles

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  talking about some of the downsides of Facebook, YouTube, and, yes, TikTok.

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  So it might seem a little surprising to hear that

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  my latest article is actually taking politicians to task for blaming TikTok.

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  And that's because I think what has happened

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  is that we have swung from ignoring

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  and not taking care of the things we need to take care of with social media

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  at the regulation level,

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  at society level,

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  at cultural level

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  to using it as a scapegoat for whatever people,

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  especially people in power, don't like.

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  Speaker: I think if you're getting your perspective on the world on TikTok,

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  it's going to tend to be warped.

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  Speaker: Social media is really lighting a fire, frankly,

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