‘TikTok is having a bad war,’ say disinformation experts


An employee looks at his mobile phone as he walks past the logo of the video-focused social networking service TikTok, at its UK offices, in London. Some say the very nature of TikTok makes it problematic when subject matter becomes more serious than funny skits and dance routines. — AFP

PARIS: The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the number one source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.

Every day, Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist with the BBC’s disinformation team, ploughs through a hallucinatory mix of fake and misleading information about the war being spewed out on the video-sharing site.

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