TikTok Is Like ‘Digital Fentanyl’ for America’s Youth: Rep. Kat Cammack

Published on November 14, 2023

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-Fla.) has reiterated her concern about the impact the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok is having on America’s youth, likening the app’s algorithm to a form of “digital fentanyl” that makes addicts of its users. Speaking with “NTD News Today” on Monday, Ms. Cammack shared her concern about an algorithm she believes is designed to draw in users by tracking their behavior on the app before feeding them exactly the content that will keep them using the app for long durations. “It really is a chemical alteration in your brain that happens,” Ms. Cammack said. “It’s kind of like digital fentanyl.”...

Continue reading on website
Other news

China Charging, Americans Paying

November 14, 2023
CommentaryThe long-ago-discredited “mixed economy” practice of  “industrial policy” is when the state, in its infallible wisdom, decides which capitalist ventures are going to be successful, and pours prodigious amounts of the taxpayers’ hard-earned cash into them, the most infamous example being Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI). The late economist Charles Schultze, who

Mississauga Woman Facing Charges After Two Large Dogs Attack 13-Year-Old Boy

November 14, 2023
A Mississauga woman is facing charges in connection with a dog attack on a 13-year-old boy that sent him to hospital with unspecified injuries. Peel Regional Police responded to reports of two large, off-leash dogs “actively attacking” a boy outside a residential building on Rathburn Road East and Central Parkway East in Mississauga on Nov. 12.The boy was transported to a trauma centre and is curr