CR: False Information Allowed on Most Major Social Media
False information on political and social issues is allowed on most major social media platforms, Consumers Reports said Thursday. The publication/organization analyzed false information on Facebook/Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, WhatsApp and TikTok. False information on political and social…
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issues is allowed on all those platforms, though Pinterest, Snapchat and TikTok were qualified as “sometimes,” CR said. WhatsApp appeared to score the worst, graded as “allowed” in all four categories: politics/social, health/Coronavirus, voting/census and manipulated media. Reddit and WhatsApp were the only platforms to allow false information in the voting/census category. Manipulated media is sometimes allowed on YouTube and Twitter and “allowed” on WhatsApp. The rest don’t allow manipulated media.