Content creators worry about miseducation in a world without TikTok


FILE PHOTO Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates outside the U.S. Capitol following a press conference by TikTok creators to voice their opposition to the ldquoProtecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Actquot pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington U.S. March 12 2024. REUTERSCraig HudsonFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates outside the U.S. Capitol following a press conference by TikTok creators to voice their opposition to the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act," pending crackdown legislation on TikTok in the House of Representatives, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2024. REUTERS/Craig Hudson/File Photo

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was December 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when "Ms. James", a public school teacher in a small rural Southern town, realized that her virtual students were not watching the grammar lessons she assigned them. That is, until she posted them on TikTok.

Everything changed when she learned about the social media platform and created her profile as @iamthatenglishteacher.


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