TikTok, the only one of the three that prohibits political advertising altogether, did not. Global Witness’s researchers submitted the same eight ads to each platform, according to the report.

TikTok failed to catch 90 percent of ads featuring false and misleading messages about elections, while YouTube and Facebook identified and blocked most of them, according to an experiment run by ...

Our study is based on a massive dataset of over 16 million TikTok videos from more than 160,000 public accounts between 2019 and 2023. We saw a spike of political TikTok videos during the 2020 U.S ...

TikTok announced a ban on political advertising all the way back in 2019.So you’d be forgiven for thinking the ugly problem of democracy-denting political disinformation doesn’t apply inside ...

That’s despite the platform’s ban on all political ads in place since 2019. The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.

The content creator loophole. TikTok banned paid political ads on its platform in 2019, but according to Reuters, content creators became a “loophole” that campaign strategists could exploit ...

TikTok has begun to require “mandatory verification” for political accounts based in the United States and will be prohibiting all political fundraising on its short-video platform, the ...

How TikTok got political Published: June 2, 2020 8:46am EDT. Penny CS Andrews, University of Sheffield. Author. Penny CS Andrews PhD Researcher in information, media and communication, ...

On one hand, with 100 million Americans using the app regularly, TikTok represents a vibrant hub of all kinds of speech — some that’s political, and much that isn’t — and to kill it off ...

Social media platform TikTok stands on the brink of a forced sale after the House passed a measure on Wednesday that would ban the app unless it parts ways with its Chinese-owned parent company ...

In January, TikTok took itself offline for about 14 hours — and app stores removed access to the platform in the United States — after the law’s initial sale-or-ban deadline passed with no deal.

To avoid a ban, ByteDance would have to arrange a sale that guaranteed TikTok was not under the control of a foreign adversary — a group that includes China — within six months.