NPR: TikTok Tightens Crackdown On QAnon, Will Ban Accounts That Promote Disinformation

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"Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley computer science professor who is a member of TikTok's committee of outside content moderation experts, said there is tension within social networks over how to respond to misinformation without also amplifying the underlying theories.
 
'When you ban it, you give it credibility. You give it attention,' Farid told NPR."
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October 18, 2020
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