TikTok failed to detect disinformation in ads related to the Irish election, approving over 50% of advertisements containing blatant and harmful disinformation submitted in Irish, and over 20% in English

https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/tiktok-still-fails-detect-disinformation-ahead-irish-general-election/

by giuliomagnifico

45 comments

  2. Right after TikTok fucked the Romanian elections.

    How many countries from the EU have to be fucked over in order to regulate the shit or even ban TikTok?

    Do you really trust the chinese with this kind of platforms?

  4. TikTok is a disgrace of a platform and should be banned everywhere, immediately.

    They have no interest in protecting users, whatsoever.

  5. Scary to think that Europe controls none of the social media apps. The Chinese and Americans control our information sphere.

  6. All social media platforms do it, i dont see a problem, just dont be a moron to believe everything you read online.

  7. Nobody regulates what tik tok allows on their platform in ireland. For years their “content creators” basically run accounts where they post illegal activities, motorcycle and car thefts, reckless driving around Dublin, to the point where it created a subculture of minors competing who will do more who will steal more and do crazier stunts with what they steal…

    Tik tok claims they regulate and review their content but nothing gets taken down as long as there is content and accounts its good enough for them.

    The worse media platform and its negative effects on youth will remain for years to come

  8. Didn’t work though. Not a single right wing party got anywhere near a seat. We have our loony bins like everywhere else but so far they seem to be getting kept marginalised like they should be.

  9. TikTok is China’s weapon against Europe and US!

    In China TikTok only shows educative and science content. That’s all!

    Europe and US already lost the “war” against China and Russia; we just don’t know it yet.

  10. Those who get their info about politics only from TikTok deserve to live in their country turned into hell.

    Unfortunately those with functioning brain, also have to live in the same country, ruined because of those idiots…

  12. Why is it even still a discussion? TikTok is controlled by the Chinese state (as everything in China). I don’t get why it isn’t already banned. How do we allow this propaganda tool to be installed on every phone in the world?

  14. It would be so funny if Tiktok got banned. Cmon this timeline already sucks give me something to hold on to lord

  15. The daft thing is, back in the day when newspapers were our main news source, we’d all kick up a fuss if one person/company controlled 50% of the press. Yet we now have TikTok (Chinese owned and no doubt happy to assist Putin) and X with the dirtbag, Musk.
    If I was the president of Europe, I’d immediately ban TikTok and then ban Twitter too unless Musk sells over 50% of his shares.

  16. This is not unique to tiktok. This is on all social media platform. Disinformation is prevalent in social media.

  17. Why do we still allow this destabilising app to operate in Europe…

  18. No shit Sherlock. TikTok is an absolute abomination and designed to be spyware and to spread bs. And we just let our citizens walk into that trap.

  19. Nothing to worry as our leaders will express that they’re “greatly concerned” very soon.

  20. Tik Tok spreads disinformation, who would have ever said it!

    **Pikachu shocked face**

  22. Failed to detect my ass.

    Edit: but we kinda are at fault here anyway – we didn’t learned NOTHING after Cambridge Analytica fiasco.

  24. “failed”, it did what it was supposed to do. That’s why it was created after all, the fact that it was allowed in, is on the liberal democracies. Some would call such submissiveness, madness.

  25. Another reason why we NEED to ban tiktok in the EU.

  26. I’m surprised they even monitor ads, I worked there and could see everything from flagged videos to search history but not ads.

  28. Crazy that they’ve missed that. Would have never expected that of a social media platform.

  29. I had to install tiktok due to a friend…

    Took 3 minutes to find propaganda from the far right in my country and one of the accounts that was posting it had a bad photoshop Picture of our president with a man who died here recently

    It said something like he is a bandit

    I reported it and… they didn’t find anything wrong with it…

    I submitted an appeal and… nothing

    Social media needs to be regulated, the far right with russian money has an army of bots to control the algorithm 

  30. Why can’t EU develop a tiktok copy so the addicts can use it to scroll, and then ban tiktok

  31. And despite that, the result of the election was the 3 main parties maintaining the majority of the vote, with minor gains to the smaller left and right parties.

    The impact of tiktok is vastly overstated.

  33. TikTok should be banned across EU, and HARD REGULATE other social media platforms that currently serve as breeding grounds for hate, disinformation, and manipulation. These platforms ….we can aaaall see(maybe not all bu i hope enough) how are weaponized to exploit let’s put it mildly … vulnerable individuals or less prepared ones. If we objectively evaluate the pros and cons, it becomes clear that these apps are overrun with bots, intrusive marketing, and irrelevant ads…

  34. Ban it. We need to go full China and have our own alternatives. Those will at least have to answer to EU governments.

  35. Why does TikTok decide what’s true and false? Why should they, or anyone, have that power/responsibility? Who fact checks the fact checkers?

  37. You can’t fail if you don’t even try in the first place

  38. Why didn’t they do the same experiment for other social media platforms? This information is less useful without relevant comparisons

  40. When are we just going to ban this piece of crap of an app that is only producing harm from brain rot to misinformation to propaganda to mass manipulation?

    There are at least 4 alternatives to that crap of an app.

  43. Social media has always had a problem with languages outside of English

  44. Don’t you know? It’s not a bug, it’s a feature…

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