Worries Grow That TikTok Is New Home for Manipulated Video and Photos

"Worries Grow" is an intentionally deceptive way of presenting an editorial filled with the opinions of people you called for their expertise in having that particular opinion, but pretending you're doing news.

"In recent days, researchers from SumOfUs, a corporate accountability advocacy group, tested TikTok’s algorithm by creating an account and searching for and watching 20 widely viewed videos that sowed doubt about the election system"

"TikTok said it had removed content, cited by the report, that violated its guidelines and would update its system to catch the search terms used to find the videos."

Personally, I find it much more troubling that a politically motivated third party, like SumOfUs, gets to dictate censorship terms to TikTok. I don't believe censoring people who question or doubt election validity will increase trust in the system either.

This must be part of the policy that the New York Times has that they have to report negatively on tech.

It's almost like its a disinfo tool heavily inundated by an adversarial foreign power...

I think in time we'll start to observe that over-bearing "moderation" of TikTok creators is simply a guise to shield the distribution of targeted disinformation or deepfakes. Idiot creators are loud and easy to prod after providing reach to a "backup account" or after re-instating.