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    The TikTok generation of my kids is not only better informed but more politicised

    My family gets its news from different sources. I was amazed how quickly the children learned all about George Floyd’s death – and its searing injustice
    by Zoe Williams Jun 05, 2020 3 minutes
    A Black Lives Matter march in Vienna, Austria. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images

    I suppose, though I couldn’t swear to it, families used to sit round the TV together and watch the same news. Now we all get our news separately, me from Twitter, the kids from TikTok, my Mr from reputable radio and newspaper sources. It means we disregard each other totally. I honestly assumed the young ones know nothing except whatever can be conveyed about slime in 15 seconds or one minute (the two time options for a TikTok). Everything Mr Z says, I tend to

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