Disinformation on TikTok: research and content moderation policies
Factsheet documenting how disinformation on TikTok is researched and how the platform's content-moderation policies operate.
Executive summary
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This EU DisinfoLab factsheet profiles TikTok's role in the spread of information and disinformation, situating the platform's rapid growth — over 3.5 billion downloads since launch, roughly 1.7 billion users across 160 countries as of 2022, more than 143 million users in the US, and an EU average of 134 million monthly active users in 2023 — against its particular appeal to teenage audiences.
The landing page summarized here functions mainly as an introduction to a fuller downloadable factsheet; it flags TikTok's engagement advantages over competing platforms as a factor in disinformation spread and notes the platform's designation as a Very Large Online Platform under the EU Digital Services Act, obliging it to publish transparency reports every six months.
Detailed methodology, investigative tooling, and specific case findings are contained in the full PDF document rather than in the summary page, limiting how much of the underlying analysis can be characterized here beyond the platform context and regulatory framing it establishes.
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