TikTok Announces the Measures It Takes for the May 14 Elections

There are only a few days left for the 14 May Turkish general elections. Of course, the vegetation of social media is now completely overflowing with allegations about elections and candidates. For possible disinformation social media giants began to take action.

Meta, the umbrella company of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, recently announced that it has established a special center for election security. Today, the most popular social media platform from TikTok A critical statement came.

TikTok announced the steps it will take to combat disinformation:

TikTok, which published a blog post on its Türkiye page, aimed at combating disinformation (false information) and meinformation (intentionally spreading misinformation) announced his work. The platform announced that it is working with more than 40,000 security experts around the world to detect and limit the spread of mesenforamization and disinformation.

How does this process go? Emir Gelen, TikTok Türkiye spokesperson explained as follows:

“Context and fact-checking (confirmation) is critical to consistently and accurately enforcing disinformation policies. Therefore, although TikTok uses all kinds of technological possibilities, especially machine learning, to help detect potential misinformation, today’s approach is ultimately based on the moderation team’s assessment, approval and removal of misinformation violations.”

Collaborating with fact-checking organizations:

TikTok, as well as disinformation moderators Teyit.org, Dogrulukpayi.com and Dogrula.org He reminded that he also made partnerships with

TikTok is also aware of its responsibility for information:

The company, which published the Digital Literacy report in Turkey as a result of cooperation with the Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), reminded the results of this report and stated that it is aware of its responsibilities.

• 63% of people believe that most of the information on the internet is not true.
• 59% consider information shared by a trusted international or national institution.
• 52% believe information sources are reliable when shared by friends and family.
• 71% do not take anonymous accounts seriously.
  • This rate drops to 61.5% in the 18-24 age group.

In other words, a large part of our people do not properly filter the information and the source of the information.

Speaking about the report, Emir Gelen says:

“The research’s latest finding raises an important question; Why are young people more inclined to trust, or at least consider, information from anonymous sources? At this point, the responsibility falls on platforms like us. As we continue to strengthen and implement our policies, we strive to be transparent and collaborate with experts to meet this challenge.”