TikTok search results ‘riddled with misinformation’ on Covid, climate and war

The TikTok app logo (Kiichiro Sato/AP)

TikTok is riddled with misleading information, including about Covid-19, climate change and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a new research report says.

Researchers at NewsGuard searched for content about prominent news topics on the social media platform and found that almost one in five videos automatically suggested by TikTok contained misinformation.