TikTok will work to stop content material creators from posting paid political messages on the short-form video app, as a part of its preparation for the midterm election in November, the corporate stated Wednesday.
Critics and lawmakers accuse TikTok and rival social media corporations together with Meta Platforms and Twitter of doing too little to cease political misinformation and divisive content material from spreading on their apps.
Whereas TikTok has banned paid political adverts since 2019, marketing campaign strategists have skirted the ban by paying influencers to advertise political points.
The corporate seeks to shut the loophole by internet hosting briefings with creators and expertise companies to remind them that posting paid political content material is towards TikTok’s insurance policies, stated Eric Han, TikTok’s head of US security, throughout a briefing with reporters.
He added that inside groups, together with those who work on belief and security, will monitor for indicators that creators are being paid to put up political content material, and the corporate will even depend on media stories and outdoors companions to seek out violating posts.
“We noticed this as a difficulty in 2020,” Han stated. “As soon as we discover out about it … we'll take away it from our platform.”
TikTok broadcast its plan following comparable updates from Meta and Twitter.
Meta, which owns Fb and Instagram, stated Tuesday it would prohibit political advertisers from operating new adverts every week earlier than the election, an motion it additionally took in 2020.
Final week, Twitter stated it deliberate to revive earlier methods for the midterm election, together with inserting labels in entrance of some deceptive tweets and inserting dependable data into timelines to debunk false claims earlier than they unfold additional on-line. Civil and voting rights specialists stated the plan was not sufficient to arrange for the election.
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