{"id":5101,"date":"2022-03-21T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/tiktok-algorithm-directs-users-to-fake-news-about-ukraine-war-study-says\/"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T12:38:22","slug":"tiktok-algorithm-directs-users-to-fake-news-about-ukraine-war-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/tiktok-algorithm-directs-users-to-fake-news-about-ukraine-war-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling curated For You Page exposes users to disinformation within 40 minutes,  investigation by NewsGuard suggests<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/ukraine-live\/latest\">Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app, according to an investigation by anti-misinformation outlet NewsGuard.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which monitors the trustworthiness of news outlets across the web, ran a pair of tests to assess how the video-sharing app treated information about the conflict. It found that a new account that did nothing but scroll the app\u2019s algorithmically curated For You Page watching videos about the war would be funnelled towards false or misleading content within 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/mar\/21\/tiktok-algorithm-directs-users-to-fake-news-about-ukraine-war-study-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d4cc7693676f4af777f5be047d6ec0cdff682dd3\/0_230_4576_2746\/master\/4576.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8be6c965432e67656a8f8f9dd8e42e8d\" title=\"TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says\" \/>Scrolling curated For You Page exposes users to disinformation within 40 minutes,  investigation by NewsGuard suggests<br \/>\nRussia-Ukraine war: latest updates<br \/>\nA new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app, according to an investigation by anti-misinformation outlet NewsGuard.<br \/>\nThe company, which monitors the trustworthiness of news outlets across the web, ran a pair of tests to assess how the video-sharing app treated information about the conflict. It found that a new account that did nothing but scroll the app\u2019s algorithmically curated For You Page watching videos about the war would be funnelled towards false or misleading content within 40 minutes. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling curated For You Page exposes users to disinformation within 40 minutes, investigation by NewsGuard suggests Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates A new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app, according to an investigation by anti-misinformation outlet NewsGuard. The company, which monitors the trustworthiness of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/21\/tiktok-algorithm-directs-users-to-fake-news-about-ukraine-war-study-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5102,"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\/5101"}],"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=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}