The war in Ukraine has rapidly positioned TikTok as the No. 1 source of misinformation thanks to its gigantic number of users and minimal filtering of content, experts say.
Every day, Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist with the BBC’s disinformation team, plows through a hallucinatory mix of fake and misleading information about the war being spewed out on the video-sharing site.
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