TikTok, Facebook OK'd Ads With Misinformation About Voting: Report
LOADING ERROR LOADING Social media platforms Facebook and TikTok failed at enforcing their policies after each being hit with ads containing “blatant” misinformation about the 2022 midterm elections, a report found Friday. Stemming from an investigation by watchdog Global Witness and New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy team, the new report describes researchers’ efforts to post 20 ads with misinformation to Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Meta’s Facebook platform approved a “significant” number of the ads: 30% in English and 20% in Spanish during one test, and 20% in English along with 50% in Spanish during another, the report said. “We know how important it is to protect our users from this type of abuse – particularly ahead of major elections like those in the United States and Brazil.” TikTok failed to catch 90% of ads featuring false and misleading messages about elections, while YouTube and Facebook identified and blocked most, according to an experiment run by Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy team at NYU Tandon.https://t.co/rTskpek5zU — Justin Hendrix October 22, 2022 Damon McCoy, a co-director of the Cybersecurity for Democracy team, said in a press release that disinformation has had a major impact on elections and argued that YouTube’s performance in the research isn’t impossible to match.
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