It seems to happen over and over again, and the mainstream media always makes it worse. The mainstream media hears about a “TikTok challenge,” reports on it like crazy, and people freak out that TikTok is destroying the children or some such. And every single time, it turns out that the media got the story…
On Monday morning, the "Today" show broadcast a television segment about an alleged TikTok challenge that was killing people. "A stunt, intended to rack up views. . It s known as the boat jumping challenge," the host declared. The news segment and subsequent article on Today.com claimed: "Multiple people have died after attempting boat jumping challenge on TikTok."