I am primarily referring to media such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube shorts etc. I am fairly young (college age) and I have noticed almost everyone around me primarily gets their news from these apps. I am not entirely opposed to people who this as I understand it makes news accessible. But, I have noticed that the people I know who do this use terminology or at least concepts associated with communist/revolutionary thought while still being adamantly liberal and opposing communism. They also tend to talk about politics more, but they aren't very receptive to any pushback or disagreement (saying you didn't support Kamala Harris was social suicide for awhile).Ironically, the people I know who don't use these platforms for news and basically never use the terminology tend to be a lot more left leaning and I tend to be able to have more nuanced political discussion the most with. I generally avoid short term form media so there's not much I can say from my own experience. For context, I attend a large American University and hang out with diverse groups.
I'm sure it depends some on the algorithms and moderation (aka: the ideological bias). Because I'm pretty sure TikTok played a part in awareness of the genocide of Palestinians, so much so that it got vilified as "dangerous Chinese tech" and then the imperialist class asserted more control over it. But in its current state, would it still be able to do a thing like that? I honestly don't know, but I'd figure it's in a worse state than before the fear-mongering and crackdown.
In other words, is it the form of media itself or is it who controls the messaging? Is short form video fundamentally different in some important way or is the difference negligible next to the influence of ideology and culture? After all, some of the worst acts in history came about long before computers were a thing, let alone TikTok.