A campaign to tackle false information around Covid-19 vaccines for youngsters aged 12 to 15 has been launched on TikTok…
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Astroworld disaster fuels wave of satanic conspiracy theories on TikTok | The Guardian
by Kari Paul
November 9, 2021
Videos of the Astroworld crowd crush that killed eight people flooded TikTok over the weekend. But conspiracy theories have also…
Meet The Medical Experts Debunking COVID Misinformation On TikTok | HuffPost Life
by Brittany Wong
October 13, 2021
Katrine Wallace, an epidemiologist and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, joined TikTok at the start of…
Conspiracy Theories Find New, Younger Fans on TikTok | Rolling Stone
by Andrea Marks
October 4, 2021
On TikTok, the user @tythecrazyguy has amassed 3.7 million followers talking about one of the internet’s most popular topics: conspiracy…
‘Pureblood’: Anti-vax TikTokers circulate new meme to promote COVID vaccine misinformation | Salon.com
by Meaghan Ellis
September 27, 2021
A new trend circulating on TikTok is further contributing to the anti-vaccination extremism and the rapid spread of misinformation regarding the…
DHS: Extremists used TikTok to promote Jan. 6 violence | POLITICO
by Betsy Woodruff Swan and Mark Scott
September 21, 2021
Federal officials warned law enforcement agencies this spring that domestic extremists had used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan.…
Welcome to TikTok’s endless cycle of censorship and mistakes | MIT Technology Review
by Abby Ohlheiser
July 16, 2021
It’s not necessarily a surprise that these videos make news. People make their videos because they work. Getting views has…
Philly TikTok doc is changing the way people get their health information | The Philadelphia Citizen
by Christine Speer Lejeune
June 16, 2021
If you’ve never giggled over the thought of a colonoscopy or found anything remotely amusing about trying to understand coronavirus…
Doctors and Scientists Are Fighting Vaccine Misinformation on TikTok | VICE
by Maddie Bender
June 15, 2021
If you browse the #teamhalo hashtag on TikTok, it might not be clear at first whether the videos are advocating…
TikTok takes down hundreds of Australian videos in misinformation crackdown | The Guardian
by Josh Taylor
May 24, 2021
False claims about Covid vaccines – including that the Australian prime minister faked getting his jab – were among some…