While the traditional media, where thousands of false information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are shared, once again reveals the importance of social media in accessing information; companies began to impose sanctions on broadcasters controlled by Russia, especially RT (Russia Today) and Sputnik.
Twitter had recently decided to place the warning “This tweet is linked to a media site associated with Russia” on tweets shared in the official accounts of Russian media organizations due to the ‘risk of misinformation’. TikTok, which has more than 1 billion monthly users, has made a similar move.
TikTok will tag government accounts
The Chinese social media company announced on its website that it will now tag state-controlled media organizations. TikTok stated that it took this decision as part of the ‘state media policy’ it developed to help users understand where the videos they watch came from, especially in times of war.
Saying that it has accelerated this policy due to the war in Ukraine, TikTok announced that it will tag the content shared in the accounts of state-controlled media organizations. The company also shared the information that it is working with 50 experts from 20 countries to accurately determine which accounts and contents belong to government media.
also tags state-affiliated media outlets on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. For example, while all of the videos on RT’s official YouTube channel include the sentence “The RT broadcaster is partially or fully funded by Russia”; Twitter, on the other hand, has placed the phrase “media associated with the Russian state” both in the tweets and in the account.
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