[Bakary]

By news they mean users who film themselves talking about news topics in a particular way that is adapted to the platform

There is a particular "informational" style that these users adopt for these videos that is increasingly popular as a Zoomer-friendly news source. Of course, in practice the content often has the same informational quality as rumors or bar discussions shared among friends, because that's exactly what it is just with a parasocial instead of a social relationship.

Essentially instead of consuming news directly, they get a curated, (in both a positive and negative sense) orally-transmitted version of it from a source they find enjoyable to listen to in general

[Kukumber]

Do you use TikTok yourself?

I do, i never seen any political content, unlike Twitter/Youtube for example, every trends is related to politics

In TikTok it's mostly creative content

You don't see Musk posting his controversial takes over there

[Bakary]

By news, I didn't mean it had to be political. Much of news is political of course, but far from all. What I'm saying is that looking on the platform and seeing how Zoomers consume news, it has that fireside chat quality where news are filtered by an approved person much like in traditional settings.