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Human rights groups and researchers have raised concerns in Brazil that social media platforms are failing to effectively police disinformation ahead of a highly polarized presidential vote on Sunday.
TikTok’s algorithms are very good at finding videos to keep people glued to their phone screens for hours on end. What they are not so good at, a new report has found, is detecting ads that contain blatant misinformation about U.S. elections. That’s despite TikTok having banned all political advertisements from its platform in 2019.…
TikTok reported to be tracking specific US citizens, while TikTok and Facebook failed to block ads containing blatant misinformation about the upcoming US midterm elections
According to a new analysis from the human rights organisation Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) Team at New York University, Facebook and TikTok failed to stop paid adverts that propagated false information about voting in the 2022 midterm elections. Global Witness attempted to run 10 identical adverts in both English and Spanish on each of Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube using fake accounts that were created for the purpose of the test. 'Outright incorrect and misleading electoral misinformation' was present in every advertisement. These advertisements propagat...
The report published Friday by the nonprofit Global Witness raises fresh concerns about the wildly popular video-sharing app’s ability to catch election falsehoods.