TikTok is sharing false and dangerous information about COVID-19 to children as young as nine shortly after they log onto the platform!
Corona fake news, false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 remain accessible for months on the popular video app TikTok and are consumed by children as young as 9 years old. This information comes from an investigation by NewsGuard , an organization that monitors online misinformation.
Numerous TikTok accounts, which have hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views, not only spread falsehoods about the number of corona survivors, but also advise the often young users against vaccination in a large number of videos, according to the study.
Actually, only users aged 13 and over can create a TikTok account. However, as the NewsGuard investigation showed, registration is also possible for younger users by providing a false date of birth.
The false claims that TikTok presented to the young participants in the NewsGuard investigation included these claims:
- COVID-19 vaccines are killing people ( fact check )
- The “harms” of COVID-19 vaccines are “hidden.”
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- Hydroxychloroquine is an effective treatment for COVID-19 ( fact check )
- COVID-19 Vaccines Contain Graphene Oxide ( Fact Check )
- Natural immunity to COVID-19 is better than vaccination ( fact check )
- COVID-19 is “the name of the international plan for population control and reduction.” ( fact check )
Content not removed from the platform and still available
NewsGuard had already published the results in June 2021 and made them available to the British government and the World Health Organization (WHO). as TheGuardian now reports, much of the content is still available, despite the social media platform promising action.
NewsGuard's Alex Cadier says TikTok's inaction against the spread of misinformation and fake news is dangerous.
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