President Joe Biden signed the bill this week that could ban TikTok from the U.S. if its parent company ByteDance doesn't sell the platform. According to young political content creators, the ban could decimate Gen Z's access to political news and information. 'An unfortunately large amount of 18- to 24-year-olds find out information about local elections from TikTok, so my heart is breaking,' Emma Mont, a political content creator, told TechCrunch. According to the Pew Research Center, about a third of American adults between ages 18 and 29 regularly get their news from TikTok. 'I think it's going to have an impact not only on the people who provide information, but also the people who receive that information,' Mont said. 'Part of the reason I make the content I do is that I know there's someone who's watching and this is the first time they're ever gonna learn about Roe v. Wade, or whatever I'm talking about.' For most content creators, the transition away from TikTok is...
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