TikTok Highlights False News About the Ukraine War

The position of companies in the Russia-Ukraine crisis has so far played a major role. Chinese social media platform to TikTok A shocking truth emerged in a study of NewsGuard, an anti-false news organization, has brought this fact to light in its trials.

NewsGuard opened a TikTok account, and in the first minutes of using the account, TikTok’s algorithm, which has already been problematic in the past, Videos with false information about Russia-Ukraine started directing.

The experiment lasted 45 minutes.

At the end of the experiment, which lasted 45 minutes, the research team revealed that the content on TikTok’s ‘recommended for you’ page is completely related to the war in Ukraine and contains a lot of true or false information. While the TikTok algorithm presents these contents, source credibility or accuracy of information things like ignores.

Among the unsubstantiated claims faced by researchers The US has biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine rumors and Putin’s press conference in early March images are photoshopped allegations were included.

The videos also say that the fake images are real and the real images are fake. For example, he allegedly shot down Russian jets. ‘The Ghost of Kyiv’videos of a being taken from the video gamereal videos from the war as fake by Russian accounts was stated.

Researchers state that some of the claims in the videos presented by the algorithm were previously found to be Kremlin propaganda, and Sino-Russian partnership He thinks that thanks to this, the size of these propagandas has increased.