TikTok, the very popular app that will likely “go dark” this weekend after the Supreme Court upheld a law that requires ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the app by Sunday or otherwise face a ban, has changed the way Americans talk about health, reports the New York Times.

“Anyone that had a camera and a personality could get their message out,” Aric Prather, a sleep psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, told the Times.

Dr. Sasha Hamdini, a psychiatrist who posts on TikTok about mental health issues, in an article published in 2023 for Harvard Public Health, touted the app, saying the “true value of TikTok is its immense potential public health impact. Used appropriately, it’s one of the most powerful tools we have for scaling information and fighting misinformation,” she added.

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