Clips peddling Covid misinformation remain on site weeks after being flagged to TikTok by Newsguard
Lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, which have amassed millions of views and are accessible to young children, have remained on the social media platform TikTok for weeks after it was alerted to them, the Guardian has learned.
TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that discourage vaccination and peddle myths about Covid survival rates were uncovered by NewsGuard, an organisation that monitors online misinformation.
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