"At this point, when you open TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, or any other social media platform, you should assume that every single thing in your feed is paid for in some way. Some of it is clips; most of it is marketing; all of it wants you to think it's just regular ol' content. All the views are lies."
"Some of it is real! But at some point the only thing you can do is not trust a bit of it. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates."
"Gudea, which shows up a bunch in this NYMag story, is... complicated. Some of it is real! But at some point the only thing you can do is not trust a bit of it."
Opening TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, or similar platforms should be treated as encountering content that is paid for in some way. Clips, marketing, and promotional material can be presented as ordinary posts. The views shown may not reflect reality. Some content can be genuine, but the overall incentive is to make it seem like regular content. Because of this, the safest approach is not to trust everything in the feed. Certain examples mentioned as appearing frequently are described as complicated, reinforcing the need for skepticism toward what appears in personalized timelines.
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