TikTok search results are reportedly swarming with misinformation
related to the 2020 US presidential election by the end of that year, for example. The company uses AI to screen videos, and either pulls flagged clips automatically or sends them to human moderators. The concern, as you might guess, is that this approach doesn't catch enough offenders — particularly those that avoid using keywords likely to alert the AI.
However prominent misinformation might be, the report comes at a bad time for TikTok. Operations chief Vanessa Pappas is due to testify today alongside other companies' executives at a Senate hearing exploring social networking's effects on national security. The findings won't necessarily come up during the hearing, but they could further pressure TikTok to clamp down on falsehoods.
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