Claim: TikTok approved political ads with election misinformation even though it has a ban on political ads.
To summarize the claim, they say TikTok officially bans political advertising, including any ads related to elections, candidates, or political misinformation. However, an investigation by Global Witness found that TikTok approved several ads containing false election information, despite having clearly violated the platform’s advertising rules. This matters because TikTok promotes itself as a platform that protects users from harmful political content, especially misinformation. If ads containing election falsehoods can pass through TikTok’s automated (or human, im not sure) review systems, it makes it seem that the TikToks’s moderation tools may not be good enough. Political misinformation can influence voter decisions, especially on a platform with millions of young users.
