I mentioned this in a previous annotation, but I think it's definitely in part due to the sensationalizing of news today. It's also due in part to the fact that news is so fats now. A lot of sources want to be the first to break news and they've gotten careless in order to do so.

I have noticed so many people get their news from Tik Tok these days. In some ways, I think this is a great resource because people actually pay attention to things they see on the app. However, I have heard some genuinely wild "news" come from people I work with that they say they heard on Tik Tok but did not fact check. Even more so than other platforms, fact checking on Tik Tok is important because typically there isn't even an article linked, it can become a game of telephone.