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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.
All political advertisements have been banned from the platform since 2019.
Major social media platforms approved disinformation in ads test
Researchers compared the ability Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube to detect misinformation regarding the upcoming elections. What does this mean for midterms?
The concerning report comes despite TikTok having banned all political advertisements from its platform in 2019.