{"id":18997,"date":"2025-06-01T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:38:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T06:38:29","slug":"more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/31\/what-is-the-most-common-mental-health-misinformation-on-tiktok\">What is the most common mental health misinformation on TikTok?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found.<\/p>\n<p>People are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2025\/jan\/08\/health-misinformation-online-tips\">increasingly<\/a> turning to social media for mental health support, yet research has revealed that many influencers are peddling misinformation, including misused therapeutic language, \u201cquick fix\u201d solutions and false claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/may\/31\/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9c56f5fc8042537534d9603f19981242fa85bff4\/480_0_4800_3840\/master\/4800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c647b17cd726a87bb3b5460b08c3c4b4\" title=\"More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds\" \/>Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods<\/p>\n<p>What is the most common mental health misinformation on TikTok?<\/p>\n<p>More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found.<br \/>\nPeople are increasingly turning to social media for mental health support, yet research has revealed that many influencers are peddling misinformation, including misused therapeutic language, \u201cquick fix\u201d solutions and false claims. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian investigation reveals promotion of dubious advice, questionable supplements and quick-fix healing methods What is the most common mental health misinformation on TikTok? More than half of all the top trending videos offering mental health advice on TikTok contain misinformation, a Guardian investigation has found. People are increasingly turning to social media for mental health &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/more-than-half-of-top-100-mental-health-tiktoks-contain-misinformation-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}