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 found, is detecting blatant election misinformation in ads. — AP
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.
That’s despite TikTok having banned all political advertisements from its platform in 2019.
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