The delusion of "the first TikTok war" of Thought Weekly; A food crisis on the tip of the iceberg

Lu Nanfeng and Zhuang Muyang's myth of "the first TikTok war" In February, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman described the Russian Ukrainian conflict as "the first war reported in TikTok by individuals who only own smart phones but are super empowered".
In the same week, various publications began to call the conflict "the first TikTok war".
The New York magazine coined the compound word "WarTok".
On March 10, Kaitlyn Tiffany, a special contributor to Atlantic Monthly, wrote an article on the magazine's website to refute the myth about "the first TikTok war".
She believes that although TikTok is a new global platform and the saturation of smartphones is a new thing in Ukraine, "the first TikTok war" is not a tenable statement.
Caitlin Tiffany first reviewed the history of media involvement in the war.
She wrote that the history of war is also a history of media.
Public memory links specific wars with different media forms.
Vietnam was the first television war.
The first war in Iraq in 1991 (referring to the Gulf War) was the first cable news war, or the first CNN war.
CNN successfully conducted live broadcast in Baghdad, which led to a "coup".
Twelve years later, the United States invaded Iraq again.
"It was supposed to be a CNN war", but it turned into a Fox News war.
It is also known as the "YouTube War".
As a journalism professor said, in this war, soldiers produced homemade videos with "personal color and sometimes shocking cruelty", including gunfights, suicide bombings and other violence.
Many videos were also accompanied by rap or metal music.
In 2006, MTV made some of the clips into a documentary called "Iraq Uploaded";
Then, the following spring, the US military banned the military from accessing YouTube on military computers.
The YouTube war is over, while the Iraq war continues.
The Internet has inspired a fast combination of narratives - you can prove this idea with a lot of links - so every new war in the Internet era is appropriately described as the first of its kind, and the war is first associated with the latest trend of digital media.
In 2012, Israel and Hamas launched the first Twitter war.
In 2013, The Daily Dot said that the Syrian civil war was "the first comprehensive conflict that YouTube and LiveLeak showed to the world".
In 2016, Time magazine announced the "First Facebook War", referring to the live broadcast of the battle between Iraqi and Kurdish forces to expel the Islamic State in Mosul, northern Iraq.
The Atlantic Monthly quoted a former State Department staff member as saying that ISIS uses Instagram and Twitter