Il social media cinese è sempre più sotto esame in Europa per la sua influenza sui processi elettorali e la scarsa moderazione dei contenuti
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00:00Is Tik Tok approving election disinformation in Ireland?
00:09Tik Tok is under scrutiny again in Europe for election related disinformation, this time in Ireland.
00:15International NGO Global Witness developed 14 Tik Tok videos with disinformation about the Irish election, in both English and Irish.
00:25They were submitted to Tik Tok to be approved as paid ads.
00:283 of the 14 were approved in English and 8 in Irish, despite the content of the posts violating the platform's community guidelines and threatening the integrity of the election.
00:40Global Witness removed the ads before they could go live on the platform, but the ads approved by Tik Tok claimed that
00:47proof of two Covid-19 vaccinations was needed to vote, postal votes would happen after election day and that votes could be cast on Facebook.
00:59We asked Tik Tok about Global Witness's investigation and the spokesperson said
01:04None of these ads ever appeared on Tik Tok and the majority were correctly rejected at the first stage of moderation.
01:12We will continue to enforce our long-standing position that we do not allow political advertising on Tik Tok
01:19and have launched a dedicated in-app election center to provide our users with authoritative information about the elections.
01:26The platform claims that the probe didn't fairly test their safeguards as it didn't go through all stages of moderation
01:33and because special symbols and characters were used to evade automated moderation.
01:38Global Witness says the probe clearly shows significant failings in Tik Tok's efforts to detect election disinformation.