We risk another crisis': TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation

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We risk another crisis’: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation

Experts say TikTok is doing far too little to rein in election lies spreading among its users. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images

Kari Paul at the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/24/tiktok-election-misinformation-voting-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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In the final sprint to the US midterm elections the social media giant TikTok risks being a major vector for election misinformation, experts warn, with the platform’s huge user base and its design making it particularly susceptible to such threats.

Preliminary research published last week from digital watchdog Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy team at New York University suggests the video platform is failing to filter large volumes of election misinformation in the weeks leading up to the vote.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Idiocracy is coming, no matter what we do.

Social media, etc...it will NEVER go back to being a sane world where the truth matters.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. Nothing is forever.

I choose to believe that the arc of the universe bends toward justice. There are hiccups and steps backward in between but things were far worse for women, minorities and lgbtq in the previous decades.

[catsudon]

2. well i expect nothing less from chinese owned

application.....

they will definitely try to influence the election and destabilize our country thru this.

[cbabe]

3. Tiktok boom documentary

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/tiktok-boom-review-documentary-1234691900/

‘TikTok, Boom.’ Review: Technology and Influencer Documentary Tries Too Hard to Be Everything at Once

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The film chronicles both the rise of Chinese social media giant TikTok as well as the viral success found by some its young creators — among them, beatboxer Spencer X and activists Deja Foxx and Feroza Aziz — as it weaves in and out of stories about privacy in the tech sector and the app’s eventual overlap with global politics. TikTok was a lightning rod for U.S.-China relations under the Trump White House, and the film’s latter half deftly captures at least some of that scope. However, en route to this vital development, it feels far too fragmented. It touches only on the basic premise of each idea, for a brief moment at a time, before charging swiftly to its next check-point.

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[Tetrachloride]

4. Every media is open to corruption

Diligence by both experts and amateurs is the way. As many as we can get. Not just those in blue states.

[MichMan]

7. Wasn't that the outlet Trump was trying to shut down?