American children lag far behind China by way of education, but not surprising given the constant weight-reduction plan of toxic social media and gender- and race-obsessed material they’re bombarded with on a day by day basis.
American students ranked eighth in reading, eleventh in science and a dismal thirtieth in math in the newest results of the Program for International Student Assessment, an exam that tests 15-year-olds every three years.
Mainland China beat all other countries in all three subject areas from all 79 countries surveyed.
Why is that this happening?
Little question largely because greater than half of Generation Z spend 4 or more hours a day on social media, as of December 2022. survey conducted by business intelligence firm Morning Seek the advice of.
The study also found that 93% of boys aged 13 to 25 in the US have YouTube accounts and 62% use Chinese TikTok, while 84% of young women are lively YouTube users and 75% have TikTok accounts.
What are they watching?
Asia Grace of The Post investigated by posing as a 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old girl on YouTube and TikTok.
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As a teenager, Grace was fed a toxic algorithmic weight-reduction plan of content that glorified underage binge drinking, violence against women, and memes about depression and mental illness.
This undoubtedly influenced the outcomes of last month’s worrying government report, which showed that nearly all of teenage girls (57%) felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021, twice as often as amongst teenagers (29%). Almost one in three teenagers seriously considered attempting suicide.
The algorithms provided Grace as she posed as a teenage boy, web personality Andrew Tate laughing on the considered a Muslim woman being stoned to death for defying her husband, and content discussing the killing of orphans and the hanging of black people.
It is claimed that in China, one other version of TikTok doesn’t show children such things.
But here in America, TikTok seems joyful to poison the minds of American children.
After all, it is not nearly China and TikTok; can be Google’s America-owned YouTube.
Even without government oversight, the people behind US social media firms should take a close have a look at what they’re doing to our children with their algorithms.
But generally Wall Street Journal and others have noted that the character of algorithms is far darker for TikTok than Instagram, such as by way of uploading videos that encourage obsession with mental illness and addiction to pornography and violence.
“It’s almost as in the event that they recognized that technology affects kid’s development and made their homemade spinach version of TikTok while shipping the opium version to the remaining of the world,” Tristan Harris, former Google worker and co-founder of the Center for Humanitarian Technology, he said “60 minutes”.
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Harris said the Chinese version of TikTok is utilized by children for science experiments at home, museum exhibits, patriotism videos, and academic videos. He added that children in China were limited to simply 40 minutes a day on the app.
FBI Director Chris Wray in December raised national security concerns about TikTok, saying he was concerned that Chinese government officials’ power over the app’s advice algorithm “allows them to govern content and, in the event that they wish, use it for influence operations.”
Wray said China could very well collect TikTok user data and use it for traditional espionage operations.
“All these items are within the hands of a government that doesn’t share our values and whose mission is very much at odds with what’s in the very best interests of the US. That ought to worry us,” Wray said.
There aren’t any limits to China’s attempts to degrade and destroy Western civilization. Given every little thing we find out about China, it could be odd to assume that they would not use TikTok for psychological warfare, known as psychological operations or psychological operations, against the American people.
“The knowledge age provides an unparalleled ability to influence each the leaders of a nation and its people,” wrote Dean Cheng, a former member of the Heritage Foundation and an authority on China.
“The core of the Chinese concept of psychological warfare is manipulating these audiences by influencing their thought processes and cognitive frameworks. In doing so, Beijing hopes to be capable of win future conflicts without firing a single shot – a victory achieved by combining undermining the desire of opponents and creating maximum confusion.”
American parents have to be more vigilant about their kid’s use of social media.
Algorithms cannot control children if parents don’t let social media deal with them.
The long run of their children and America’s competitiveness are at stake.
Carrie Sheffield is a senior fellow at Independent Women’s Voice.