SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 15 ― TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released yesterday.
“Even when TikTok's search results yielded little to no misinformation, the results were often more polarizing than Google's,” NewsGuard said of its findings. False or misleading claims in results included conspiracy theories promoted by QAnon and supposed home recipes for hydroxychloroquine, a prescription drug used to treat malaria and lupus, according to NewsGuard.
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