Die in chinesischem Besitz befindliche Plattform wird in Europa zunehmend wegen ihrer Einflussnahme auf Wahlprozesse unter die Lupe genommen. Die NGO Global Witness stellte bei einem Test fest, dass Falschaussagen zur Wahl in Irland gebilligt wurden.
00:00Is Tik Tok approving election disinformation in Ireland?
00:09Tik Tok is under scrutiny again in Europe for election related disinformation, this time in Ireland.
00:15International NGO Global Witness developed 14 Tik Tok videos with disinformation about the Irish election in both English and Irish.
00:25They were submitted to Tik Tok to be approved as paid ads.
00:283 of the 14 were approved in English and 8 in Irish, despite the content of the posts violating the platform's community guidelines and threatening the integrity of the election.
00:40Global Witness removed the ads before they could go live on the platform.
00:44But the ads approved by Tik Tok claimed that proof of two Covid-19 vaccinations was needed to vote, postal votes would happen after election day and that votes could be cast on Facebook.
00:59We asked Tik Tok about Global Witness' investigation and the spokesperson said,
01:04None of these ads ever appeared on Tik Tok and the majority were correctly rejected at the first stage of moderation.
01:11We will continue to enforce our long-standing position that we do not allow political advertising on Tik Tok and have launched a dedicated in-app election center to provide our users with authoritative information about the elections.
01:26The platform claims that the probe didn't fairly test their safeguards as it didn't go through all stages of moderation and because special symbols and characters were used to evade automated moderation.
01:38Global Witness says the probe clearly shows significant failings in Tik Tok's efforts to detect election disinformation.
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