TikTok, Facebook OK'd Ads With Misinformation About Voting: Report
The ads targeted multiple battleground states in the midterms such as Arizona, Colorado and Georgia, according to the report.
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The ads targeted multiple battleground states in the midterms such as Arizona, Colorado and Georgia, according to the report.
A new report raises concerns about TikTok's ability to catch election falsehoods at a time when a growing number of young people use it not just for entertainment, but also for finding information.
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
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 US elections.
Global Witness purposely produces misleading ads, putting both YouTube and Facebook to test.