According the report, TikTok searches about politics yielded results with misinformation and references to QAnon conspiracy theories.
NewsGuard researchers searched terms like "mRNA vaccine," "2022 election" and "Uvalde tx conspiracy" to analyze the accuracy of information on TikTok.
TikTok, whose users are predominantly teenagers and young adults, "repeatedly delivered videos containing false claims in the first 20 results, often within the first five," the report states. "Google, by comparison, provided higher-quality and less-polarizing results, with far less misinformation."The researchers searched terms such as "mRNA vaccine" and "2022 election," as well as controversial news topics like "Uvalde tx conspiracy.
TikTok recently began removing abortion-related videos that violate its policy against medical misinformation, including those that share potentially dangerous advice about how to self-induce an abortion. NewsGuard's report was released amid bipartisan concerns in Washington about the possibility that US user data could find its way to the Chinese government and be used to undermine US interests due to a national security law in that country that compels companies located there to cooperate with data requests.
TikTok does not operate in China, Pappas said, though it does have an office in China. TikTok is owned by ByteDance, whose founder is Chinese and has offices in China.
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