Media watchdog: TikTok teems with misinformation

  SAN FRANCISCO --- 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 Wednesday. Toxicity and false claims are a "significant threat" at TikTok, which is becoming a go-to online venue for young people to search for information, according to a study by NewsGuard, a media watchdog. NewsGuard describes itself as a "journalism and technology tool" that rates the credibility of websites and online information. "Even when TikTok's search results yielded little to no misinformation, the results were often more polarizing than Google's," NewsGuard said of its f...

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