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Why Do People Believe Everything They Watch on TikTok?

Why Do People Believe Everything They Watch on TikTok?

Why Do People Believe Everything They Watch on TikTok?
06 February 2023

Dakota Fink didn’t mean to spread a lie. Honestly, she didn’t.

It was May 2021 and the 23-year-old LA-based model was wearing a face mask. “I was thinking I needed to be more involved with TikTok,” she says. So she decided to record a video as a joke: She’d pull off the flesh-coloured face mask on camera, and subtitle it with a claim that women had to peel layers of their skin off after their period.

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