They say that both the first war of TikTok and the one in Iraq in 1991 was the first war of CNN, the American TV that broadcast live the salient phases of the conflict; and that in Israel in 2012 the first “of Twitter”, and that in Syria “of YouTube” and that in Kurdistan “of Facebook”. Calling it “the first TikTok war” is misleading and risks making us forget that it is about bombs and death and not posts and likes.
TikTok is taking over the world
by Riccardo Luna
Epper platforms influence events and public opinion of them. In this case TikTok, compared to Twitter, where mainly politicians and journalists are, or other social networks, and even more than an all news TV like CNN, has a very young audience and this something changes. It is the children, our children, who rarely read the newspapers, who find out through TikTok where the war is not made up of news but of stories: videos of stories of other children who tell about life under bombs, the death of friends and relatives, and how to change habits to survive.
One degree less for Ukraine and for us
by Riccardo Luna
It is an emotional, engaging story, without mediations: I believe that if Anne Frank had had social media during the Second World War, her diary would probably have put it on TikTok. All this does not happen without risk and without problems. Which is not just fake news, fake news spread by propaganda. War is a huge thing, difficult to understand, and when you understand it impossible to accept. And our children live it on their smartphone at any time of the day. Will she do him any good? It depends. The only advice I can give you is talk about them, talk about them a lot, listen to them, help them orient themselves. Don’t leave them alone. And perhaps we will come out of it having understood the meaning of the words freedom, courage and resistance.
The war seen on Yandex, the Google of the Russians
by Riccardo Luna
