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TikTok and ADHD Misinformation


If you are using social media as your source of information, read this first. Only one in five ADHD-related TikTok videos studied was deemed based on "useful" information.

These difficulties manifest as problems with the reliable and intentional organization of behavior over time to set out plans, persist on them, and achieve desired objectives, at least see them through to some completion. Remember Stephen Colbert’s Word of the Day, “Wikiality?” The term refers to the truth as consensus to illustrate the introduction and spread of misinformation. 1 The proprietary algorithms of TikTok and other social media platforms provide suggestions not based on the quality of evidence but on what keeps users engaged in the business economy of distraction.

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