It's not all viral dances and lip-synching — there's some really dangerous information on TikTok
with lawmakers last month, representatives from most of the major social media companies spoke with lawmakers about combatting misinformation on their platforms — that is, except TikTok. That’s in part because it’s not considered a serious purveyor of news, with the public generally viewing it as a platform for viral dances. But in effect, that may make it more dangerous.
Publicly, TikTok has vowed to curb misinformation on its platform. As the novel coronavirus was ravaging Wuhan in January, it revised itsto specifically prohibit misinformation “that may cause harm to an individual’s health, such as misleading information about medical treatments” as well as “misinformation meant to incite fear, hate, or prejudice.
Some of the most popular videos exist at the nexus of anti-vaccine and anti-government conspiracy theorist content, thanks in part to the heightened presence of Qanon accounts on the platform. Onewith more than 457,000 views and 16,000 likes posits that Microsoft’s founding partnership in digital ID program ID2020 Alliance is targeted at the ultimate goal of “combining mandatory vaccines with implantable microchips,” with the hashtags #fvaccines and #billgates.
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