Someone give me a reason why TikTok would do this that isn't, "We want to make this as disruptive and divisive as possible and that is way more important to us than our creators or our users or our employees."

The most important thing I’ve learned about communicating in an age of lots of lies is that pre-bunking is basically the only thing that works. Give people ammunition against misinformation, but do not tell them that you’re doing that.