Social media giant TikTok approved most political advertisements containing false and misleading information about U.S. elections despite assurances from the company that it had a robust mechanism for detecting such content, a new report has found.
TikTok approved 90 percent of advertisements that featured misleading and outright false information about the upcoming 2022 U.S. midterm elections, according to a joint report by nonprofit Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) team at New York University.
The report’s results were based on an experiment conducted to determine how well social media platforms live up to their promises to stop disinformation capable of destabilizing democratic processes….