TikTok, a popular short video app owned by China-based ByteDance, has been spreading disinformation about the Ukraine war, including both pro-Russian and pro-Ukraine falsehoods, as well as Kremlin propaganda, according to a recent report by journalism watchdog NewsGuard. “NewsGuard’s findings add to the body of evidence that TikTok’s lack of effective content labeling and moderation, coupled with its skill at pushing users to content that keeps them on the app, have made the platform fertile ground for the spread of disinformation,” the report stated. “TikTok continues to be fertile ground for dangerous disinformation, fed to a young audience,” it added, noting that at the end of 2021, the site boasted of having more than one billion active monthly users, a record shared only by Facebook. A Deluge of Misinformation NewsGuard reached its findings through an exercise in which six analysts generated TikTok accounts and conducted experiments aimed at replicating what …