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Focus Tag: TikTok
Europe’s New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up | WIRED
by Tom Simonite
May 5, 2022
Social networks grow up faster these days. It took Facebook eight years to reach 1 billion users, but TikTok got…
Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
by Emily Tamkin
April 21, 2022
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of…
An ‘Explosion’ of Anti-Ukraine Disinformation Is Hitting Moldova | WIRED
by Morgan Meaker
April 8, 2022
The video of the two men wrestling has been shared 41,000 times on Facebook, although the post was taken down…
Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell
March 31, 2022
Facebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide…
TikTok algorithm directs users to fake news about Ukraine war, study says | The Guardian
by Alex Hern
March 21, 2022
A new TikTok account can be shown falsehoods about the Ukraine war within minutes of signing up to the app,…
TikTok stars receive White House briefing on Ukraine | The Washington Post
by Taylor Lorenz
March 11, 2022
On Thursday afternoon, 30 top TikTok stars gathered on a Zoom call to receive key information about the war unfolding…
How publishers are tackling the war disinformation problem on TikTok | Digiday
by Kayleigh Barber
March 10, 2022
Misinformation ricochets around the internet during any world event or political conflict — that’s nothing new — but TikTok poses…
OSINT researchers went viral unpacking the war in Ukraine | Rest of World
by Leo Schwartz
March 9, 2022
Under the pseudonym Intel Crab, University of Alabama sophomore Justin Peden has become an unlikely source of information about the…
TikTok Ukraine War Videos Raise Questions About Spread of Misinformation | The New York Times
by Sheera Frenkel
March 7, 2022
Bre Hernandez used to scan TikTok for videos of makeup tutorials and taco truck reviews. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, the…