{"id":7497,"date":"2022-10-25T05:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/we-risk-another-crisis-tiktok-in-danger-of-being-major-vector-of-election-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T05:37:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T03:37:36","slug":"we-risk-another-crisis-tiktok-in-danger-of-being-major-vector-of-election-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/we-risk-another-crisis-tiktok-in-danger-of-being-major-vector-of-election-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We risk another crisis\u2019: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study suggests the video platform is failing to filter false claims and rhetoric in the weeks leading up to the vote<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/series\/the-tiktok-takeover\">Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the final sprint to the US midterm elections social media giant TikTok risks being a major vector for election misinformation, experts warn, with the platform\u2019s massive user base and its design making it particularly susceptible to such threats.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/en\/campaigns\/digital-threats\/tiktok-and-facebook-fail-detect-election-disinformation-us-while-youtube-succeeds\/\">research<\/a> published last week from digital watchdog Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy team at New York University suggests the video platform is failing to filter large volumes of election misinformation in the weeks leading up to the vote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/24\/tiktok-election-misinformation-voting-politics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0dc7de20062e3ea819322d0697162f2178fc6e4b\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2185b877ba6dde3858070225385aefc9\" title=\"\u2018We risk another crisis\u2019: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation\" \/>A study suggests the video platform is failing to filter false claims and rhetoric in the weeks leading up to the vote<br \/>\nRead the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<br \/>\nIn the final sprint to the US midterm elections social media giant TikTok risks being a major vector for election misinformation, experts warn, with the platform\u2019s massive user base and its design making it particularly susceptible to such threats.<br \/>\nPreliminary research published last week from digital watchdog Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy team at New York University suggests the video platform is failing to filter large volumes of election misinformation in the weeks leading up to the vote. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study suggests the video platform is failing to filter false claims and rhetoric in the weeks leading up to the vote Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok In the final sprint to the US midterm elections social media giant TikTok risks being a major vector for election &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/25\/we-risk-another-crisis-tiktok-in-danger-of-being-major-vector-of-election-misinformation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018We risk another crisis\u2019: TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7498,"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\/7497"}],"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=7497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}