Kids, War & TikTok: What Parents Need to Know!

If you think TikTok is just a fun, lip-synching, dancing app, think again. Millions of young people getting real-time information—sometimes quite graphic— about the war in Ukraine from the platform. Some posts have earned millions of likes and hundreds of thousands of comments. Even the White House has taken note of TikTok as a prominent news source about the war, recently inviting 30 top TikTok influencers to a press briefing in order to provide them with key information to inform their content. Watch this Cyberwise Chat with Dr. Pamela Rutledge of the Media Psychology Research Center and Diana Graber of Cyberwise to find out what your children are learning about war on TikTok.