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Beware the ‘New Google:’ TikTok’s Search Engine Pumps Toxic Misinformation To Its Young Users

Beware the ‘New Google:’ TikTok’s Search Engine Pumps Toxic Misinformation To Its Young Users

Beware the ‘New Google:’ TikTok’s Search Engine Pumps Toxic Misinformation To Its Young Users
15 September 2022

The NewsGuard investigation found that for a sampling of searches on prominent news topics, almost 20 percent of the videos presented as search results contained misinformation. This means that for searches on topics ranging from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to school shootings and COVID vaccines, TikTok’s users are consistently fed false and misleading claims.

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