According to a new report, searching for news topics on TikTok may yield more misinformation than you think.
Lots of people keep up with the important news of the day using social media, but if you’re using TikTok to learn about current events, you may want to be more careful with the app’s search results. Research from a new report has found that quite a few of the videos featured in those results contained misinformation.
The report itself was published by NewsGuard, a company that keeps track of misinformation online and rates the trustworthiness of news sites, and is known for its browser extension of the same name. The searches were also conducted on re-installations of the TikTok app and via a new account for each search in order to “ensure that results were not curated to be affected by users’ previous activity.” The research also involved comparisons between TikTok’s search results and Google’s search results.According to NewsGuard’s report, the “almost 20%” of videos in search results finding breaks down like this: NewsGuard reviewed 540 TikTok results .
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