Tiktok Search Results Contain Massive Misinformation Report
A few months ago, TikTok and its parent company ByteDance were accused of sending the US data abroad and allowing China-based employees to access US users’ data. Now, the Chinese video-sharing app is making the headlines again for its misinformation materials in the search results. Internet trust researchers at NewsGuard have sampled TikTok search results and found that almost 20 percent of them contain misinformation. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, school shootings, COVID vaccines, and attacks on the US Capitol are the most prominent examples of misinformation on TikTok....