Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on TikTok and say they found that nearly 1 in 5 of the videos automatically suggested by the platform contained misinformation.
on TikTok found similarly misleading videos scattered among more accurate clips.
TikTok is the second most popular domain in the world, according to online performance and security company Cloudflare, exceeded only by Google., is doing enough to stop misinformation or whether it deliberately allows misinformation to proliferate as a way to sow confusion in the U.S. and other Western democracies.
TikTok has taken other steps that it says are intended to direct users to trustworthy sources. This year, for example, the companyThe platform removed more than 102 million videos that violated its rules in the first quarter of 2022. Yet only a tiny percentage of those ran afoul of TikTok’s rules against misinformation.
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